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42nd East Coast Commercial Fishermen’s & Aquaculture Trade Exposition January 15 – 17, 2016

January 13, 2016 Mid Atlantic

January 15 – 17 – Ocean City Convention Center, Ocean City, Maryland – 2016 is shaping up to be a great year for our trade show. We have a couple of big work boats that are going to be in the show with many new vendors to add to our amazing veteran vendors. Check out below for some of the great things you will get to see at the trade show. Aquaculture and commercial fishing seminars, Charter boat and sports fishermen gear, equipment, Chef cooking demonstrations, Watermen of the year annual competition with a cash prize, and more. Click here for details, and enjoy the show! 20:31

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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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