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Jane say’s lack of diversity is impeding effective conservation action!

November 8, 2014 ENGO, International News

There seems to be some squabbling in the Environmental Industry over diversity! Nearly 250 experts, including Jane Lubchenco, have signed a letter saying infighting and exclusion of women and minorities within the conservation movement is preventing effective action worldwide. Where’s all the cumbyia? Read the rest here, apologies to my friends for the photo. 19:04:44

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HANGZHOU, China – A Chinese bonanza for Canadian lobster producers?

November 8, 2014 Canada, International News

Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba hopes to sell 200,000 Canadian lobsters next week, its founder declared Friday — one dividend of Stephen Harper’s ongoing effort to cultivate “pretty important” economic ties between the two countries. “We want to help the small guys sell to China because the big guys, they don’t need us,” said Ma, a Hangzhou native who started up the company from his apartment 15 years ago. Read the rest here 12:05

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John Risley, seafood baron, lands $1B telecommunications deal

November 8, 2014 Canada

Nova Scotia seafoood baron John Risley has landed his biggest deal yet — and it has nothing to do with scallops or lobster. On Thursday, Columbus Communications Inc. — the Caribbean telecommunications and cable company Risley founded 10 years ago — merged with a larger rival, Cable and Wireless Communications PLC. Read the rest here 11:28

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New crab trappers in Louisiana need to be field trained

November 8, 2014 Gulf of Mexico

People looking to get into the crab harvesting business will now be required to participate in field training. New requirements for commercial crab trap gear licenses go into effect later this month and are part of a larger effort to improve the product and practices in various local fisheries. Read the rest here 08:49

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Sea lions may be killing even more Columbia salmon

November 8, 2014 Pacific

Lead researcher Dr. Michelle Wargo-Rub of the Seattle-based Northwest Fisheries Science Center says fish mortality and the number of sea lions in the estuary have increased dramatically in recent years. Read the rest here 08:40

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Bountiful crab season underway – Red king season winds down, boats shifting to Tanners

November 8, 2014 North Pacific

Crabbers had caught most of their Bristol Bay red king crab quota as of last Friday, harvesting 85 percent of the nearly 10 million pound quota, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Unalaska. Read the rest here 08:30

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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