Tag Archives: Current Cod Crisis
Current Cod Crisis 500 Years in the Making
In his latest book, The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail , Professor Jeffrey Bolster chronicles more than a millenium of overfishing. continued
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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Crescent City Crab Fleet Hits The Water; Catch Expected To Reach Citizens Dock Starting Saturday
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U.S. Coast Guard medevacs a fisherman from a crab boat 200 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor
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Rescue teams race to sinking fishboat in Georgia Strait, off Vancouver
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Why Scotland’s Struggling Fishing Industry Backed Brexit, and Why Its Fishermen May Regret It
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Awesome Underwater Footage of a White Shark Eating a Grey Seal
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As numbers of gray seals rise, so do conflicts
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Selling out the Fishermen and Consumers in Port Phillip
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What to do with an icon: Boston PR firm hired to retool branding for Maine lobster
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What goes in the water in Wisconsin comes out in the Gulf of Mexico
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What’s Alaska’s biggest fishing town? UFA Fishing Fact Sheets has all the answers
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Small fishing boats in Scotland could be tracked under new plans
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Eel of Fortune
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A “Must Read” for Media and Politicians – Seeing the bigger picture on right whales
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Newfoundland ponders direct fish sales to citizens
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Harbour Grace shipyard owners try to assure creditors, customers as workers brace for the worst
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Constitutional challenge in Indigenous lobster fishing case moving ahead this week
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‘Wicked Tuna’ Star To Plead Guilty To Fraud Charges
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“Food security is right here”: Sea-to-table sales keep fishing business afloat
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Sam Parisi remembers the Captain and Crew of the F/V Capt. Cosmo
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Recreational Fishing and Boating Community Calls on Congress to Revamp Marine Fisheries Management
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NMFS Proposed rule to amend hired master regulations IFQ program fixed-gear commercial Pacific halibut and sablefish fisheries in the BSAI.
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Bristol Bay fishermen protest processors’ low sockeye market price — 50 cents per pound
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Altamaha Riverkeeper to Sue Rayonier for Clean Water Violations
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Marine researcher joins Vancouver Aquarium two years after losing federal funding
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New England Fishermen Fear NOAA Retaliation as Feds Pin Dead Whale on Maine Lobstermen
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