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Canadian Feds give Seabridge Gold’s KSM the environmental nod

December 21, 2014 Canada, North Pacific

Ketchikan, Alaska – The Canadian federal government approved the environmental assessment application on Friday for the massive KSM gold and copper mine in northwestern British Columbia near the Alaska border saying it is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects. Environmentalists, aboriginal groups and commercial fishermen in Alaska,,, Read the rest here 08:22

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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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Canadian Feds give Seabridge Gold’s KSM the environmental nod

Ocean Resource Privatization

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

Recent Posts

Santa Cruz crabbers face a slow start to the season

NOAA Fisheries Releases Final “Batched” Biological Opinion & North Atlantic Right Whale Conservation Framework

Louisbourg Seafood hopes to keep more than 1,000 crates of lobsters alive long enough to find buyer

Fishermen’s Premium Atlantic Lobster Inc to finance lobster processing plant in Nova Scotia

Russian actions in Ukraine – “This has a ripple effect, even though the actual events are far from the Arctic,”

Money Well Spent! $450,0000 in State Funding of Cooperative Fisheries Research at UMass Dartmouth

‘I’m a fisherman in East Lothian and I am fighting for my survival’

Controlling Agreements – DFO cracks down on fishing licences it says are fronts for corporations

Puget Sound pollution is the culprit causing orcas’ demise

20 crew members on vessel in Dutch Harbor test positive for COVID-19 in latest seafood industry outbreak

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Don Young: Stosh Anderson misrepresents Magnuson-Stevens reauthorization

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Expect more clashes like the Nova Scotia lobster dispute as Canadians’ rights collide

US warns threat of an export ban over continued killing of seals by Scots fish farms

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries calling for public input on proposed changes to the Louisiana Wild Seafood Certification Program.

The C word

F/V Susan Rose Salvage is Underway

Study from Oxford suggests rogue waves are random

Oil spill would ‘overwhelm’ resources, B.C. minister warned

Looking Back: 2007-Wake up New Jersey before more of your tax dollars are wasted on Governor Corzine’s offshore windfarm

Grey seals eat into another fish population in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Victoria takes on Tassie in the scallop pie stakes with Victorian scallops

As US’ first offshore wind farm takes root, study indicates wind may be more powerful, turbulent than expected

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