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Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 72.1′ Steel Stern Trawler,1975, Dragger Steel, CAT, Permits
Specifications, more photos, and information Click here 11:08
The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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Walker administration says loophole costs $1.4M in taxes from some of the big Washington-based factory trawlers
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Coast Guard medevacs ailing fisherman at Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
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UPDATED: Lobster vessel runs aground on Shelburne County coastline, recovered.
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Killer grey seals could attack humans say scientists
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Officials examining right whale found dead off N.J. – wounds are “consistent with a vessel collision”
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Fishermen continue to speak out against a fireboat being moved to the railroad dock in Greenport.
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Maine lobster suppliers joined Massachusetts and Canadian peers in Brussels to foil EU import ban
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Hurricane Sandy stirs up trouble for NE fishing sector
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Politics catching up with Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board
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‘Deadliest Catch’ captain to speak at fishermen’s forum in Rockland
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Operation Lobster set to commence at Halifax Stanfield International Airport
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Fewer shrimpers are hitting the water in North Carolina
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The hidden danger of Dumping Day in Nova Scotia
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Scuttled Offshore Wind Plans Are Good News For Ratepayers, North Atlantic Right Whales
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Salmon are rolling into Upper Cook Inlet’s commercial fishery
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A slow news day, Screwed up Menu, and 2 job postings on the Bluenose II, or III or whatever they call her
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“The folks in Washington, they’re just not doing their job,” – Low prices mark start of fall shrimp season
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Stranded lobsters and missing wedding dresses: The coronavirus is a daily reminder of China’s global reach
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Destroyed tuna vessel Laurie Ann towed to Salisbury
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‘This is the war’: New Bedford at center of conflict between fishing, wind industries
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Sandy grant program open to N.J. fishing businesses – From NOAA federal fishery disaster declaration fund
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Pine Island: New shrimp farm owner addresses concerns
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Those Lobsters are Flying! Record 65,000 kg load of lobster flies from Moncton to Europe
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Coronavirus: Data shows pandemic landed blow on P.E.I. lobster fishery in 2020
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Group sues to require sea-turtle trap doors in shrimp nets
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