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Aleutian Islands golden king crab kicks off Alaska’s big fall crab fisheries

August 21, 2013 North Pacific

A small fleet of boats dropped pots last week in Alaska’s most far flung crab fishery: golden king crab along the Aleutian Islands. The boats can remain at sea for a month or more through February. Golden king crab is Alaska’s most stable crab fishery with a conservative harvest each year capped at just over 6 million pounds. The golden kings live at depths of 1,800 feet or more amid underwater mountain ranges. more@alaskafishradio 13:33

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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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