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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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Elda Curtis Henry, followed in his Commercial Fisherman fathers footsteps, has passed away
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Cape Winds Massachusetts Renewable Energy Circus – local news media lacks any kind of investigative journalism.
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Obituary: Nathan Fuller, World War II – Korean War Navy Veteran, Lobsterman has passed away
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Federal Fisheries Frustration
This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. Federal Fisheries Frustration. Hear more after this…@alaskafishradio 15:12 Read More » -
MP Nathan Cullen Calls On Feds To Aid In Skeena Sockeye Crisis
Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen is calling on the federal government and the Pacific Salmon Commision to find a better way of monitoring US overtake of local Read More » -
Coast Guard medevacs fisherman 50-miles off Atlantic City, N.J.
The Coast Guard medevacced a fisherman who was reportedly suffering stroke-like symptoms approximately 50-miles off the coast of New Jersey, Tuesday. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Read More » -
Nation’s first mega-offshore wind project stalled for additional study
On most afternoons in Point Judith, Rhode Island, commercial fisherman Brian Loftus steers his trawler back into port after a 12-hour day. Loftus unloaded some 1,500 Read More » -
SEA-NL elects new President, first woman leader of fisheries organization in province’s history
Fortune-based inshore enterprise owner Pamela Patten has been elected President of Seaward Enterprises Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (SEA-NL), believed to be the first woman to Read More » -
Estimating similarity in benthic communities over decades and in areas open and closed to fishing in the central Gulf of Maine
ABSTRACT: The ledges and banks of the central Gulf of Maine (i.e. Fippennies Ledge, Jeffreys Ledge, Cashes Ledge, and Platts Bank) have supported groundfish and Atlantic Read More » -
Eel of Fortune
Against a backdrop of competing cultural and commercial interests, Canadian regulators will soon spin the wheel on the future of the little-understood American eel. Lighting the hissing Read More » -
Coast leaders file federal lawsuit to change procedures for future spillway openings
In the spring and summer of 2019, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River Commission opened the Bonnet Carré spillway element of the Read More » -
From the “Where the Rubber Meets the Road” Department: Automobile Tires Are Killing West Coast Salmon, Not Climate Change
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Good bad news?
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NOAA Seeks Nominations for Scientific Review Groups under the Marine Mammal Protection Act
NOAA Fisheries will publish a Federal Register Notice on Monday, August 19, 2019, soliciting nominations to three independent marine mammal scientific review groups (SRG). We would Read More » -
Fish Factor: Anchorage tops Alaska for fisherman-per-mile. Compiled by United Fishermen of Alaska
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Bering Sea cod conflict brewing between on and offshore buyers
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Who’s Buying Lobster?!! Maine Lobster Industry Pivots Focus
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Despite evidence the stocks are moving – Data due for setting shrimp limits
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Strange but true! The “noaa chronical’s” – NOAA report spotlights ‘underfishing’
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Update: Lubchenco leaving NOAA, says she ‘returned fishing to profitability’
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MH370 10 years on: Should the search for the doomed flight continue?
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Morro Bay opts not to host second Marine Sanctuary forum
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