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Outer Banks Seafood Festival Endowment Created

September 1, 2022 South Atlantic

The Outer Banks Community Foundation is pleased to announce that the Outer Banks Seafood Festival Endowment has been established by the Outer Banks Seafood Festival Board of Directors. The Outer Banks Seafood Festival is a nonprofit organization that promotes the positive impacts of our local seafood industry, educates people about seafood indigenous to North Carolina and the Outer Banks, and provides need-based support to the local fishing community and its members through festival proceeds. The endowed, designated fund will be maintained to support the Seafood Festival and its philanthropy. >click to read< 17:38

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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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Outer Banks Seafood Festival Endowment Created

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

Coast Guard medevacs a commercial fisherman 35 miles east of Nantucket

Province to consider lobster plant proposal in Cape Sable Island

Carlos Rafael files a motion of opposition to forfeiture

In their battle against sea lions, fish are losing – Support The Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Protection Act

At the Very Beginning of the Great Alaska Earthquake

Fishing industry at risk of being ‘put to the sword’ by offshore renewables and MPA’s

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Connecticut: River herring returning to state waterways

Coronavirus: Disruption in the seafood supply chain ripples from empty Philly restaurants to idle N.J. docks

The Assistant Professor is very much uninformed. – Congress shouldn’t undermine conservation measures that can help rebuild New England fisheries

10-year pilot project: On-board processing of Hake discussed by Regional District of Mount Waddington board

‘Rock the Shrimpers Relief Benefit’ – Shrimpers explain difficult process with boat removal

‘Codfather’s’ fraud leaves New Bedford fishing permits on ice, and lot of people out of work

Fisherynation.com welcomes our newest sponsor, AFG Flame Guard USA

Critics rip feds’ “half-baked” plan to save California salmon

Monterey Bay anchovy numbers in decline, groups say

Tradex 3MMI – Where’s All The Norwegian Cod Going? West Coast Algae Bloom Effects on Pink Shrimp Supply

Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield fights cancer – treatment has begun – has asked to be left out of the next cabinet

Rye, N.H. fisherman Keper Connell hooks consumer wave with his Gulf of Maine tinned tuna

Dungeness crab season delays hit Santa Cruz fishermen hard

Contrary to mainstream belief, wind turbines are neither effective nor, in many cases, good for the environment

Commercial fishing boat Susan Rose grounded at Point Pleasant Beach – Photos

Dave Cousens, longtime chief of lobstermen’s association, to step down

The Boys are Back! ‘Deadliest Catch’ season preview

The time Rod Stewart came to town, and then threw us under the bus

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