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Cold-Water Safety Workshop for Commercial Fishermen in Santa Cruz – March 26-27

March 22, 2015 Pacific

The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association is offering an 18-hour cold water safety and drill conductor workshop this week. The workshop will be held Thursday and Friday, March 26-27, at the Harbord Department Public Meeting Room, 365A Lake Ave., Santa Cruz. There will be an in-the-water practice session where workshop participants will practice skills with PFDs, immersion suits, and a life raft. This workshop meets the training requirements for documented commercial fishing vessels operating beyond the federal boundary line. It meets U.S. Coast Guard requirements for documented fishing vessels. Cost is $75 for commercial fishermen, $195 for all others. Register: 907-747-3287, www.amsea.org. 18:38

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Safety Training Offered for Commercial Fishermen in Cordova

February 1, 2013 North Pacific

Cordova Times Staff: Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) will offer a one-day fishing vessel safety and drill conductor course in Cordova on Saturday, February 16, 2013. The course will be held at the Pioneer Igloo in Cordova. This course meets the training requirements for commercial fishing vessels. It is available FREE to commercial fishermen thanks to funding from the USCG and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Read more

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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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