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California Dungeness crab season faces delays in parts of state

November 11, 2018 Pacific

The opening of the commercial Dungeness crab season has been delayed until at least Dec. 1 in the waters north of Bodega Head State Marine Reserve to the Sonoma/Mendocino county line because of elevated levels of domoic acid, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today. The commercial fishery south of this area will open as scheduled Thursday, however. >click to read<10:51

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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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California Dungeness crab season faces delays in parts of state

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

Recent Posts

Alaska joins Hawaii to have central North Pacific humpbacks struck from endangered list

Hiring seafood workers in Bristol Bay has been tough for years. This summer, it’s worse.

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“Deadliest Catch” star meets with Maine fishermen – Video

LIPA to pursue 11 solar arrays in Suffolk, reject offshore wind farm

Maine Elected Officials Rebuke “Seafood Watch” But Stay Silent on Endangered Species Act’s Threat to Lobstermen

Obituary: Grant Thompson, 40+ years owner operator of commercial fishing vessels, industry innovator in Bristol Bay

Feds threaten shutdown of N.J. Fluke fishery as showdown escalates

Planned Tenfold North Sea Windfarm Expansion by 2050

Walton: Maine lobsters — a coast to coast dispute

Southeast Alaska Geoduck Divers Not Yet Affected By China’s Shellfish Ban

UPDATED: Commercial Fishing Vessel Caledonian capsizes off Tofino, B.C., three dead

Enviros sue for North Atlantic Right Whale protections from ship strikes

Sable Island’s cod killer? The new plan to slaughter seals blames seals for the cod fishery collapse

Jessie’s Ilwaco Fish Company’s largest creditors battle as receivership stalls

Gail Shea still pushing ‘imperative’ lobster levy in Nova Scotia

Gulf of Alaska cod stocks at all-time lows

Coast Guard medevacs man off fishing vessel near Hobucken, NC

New England Fishery Management Council meeting in Gloucester, Sept. 26th thru 28th

Marrero Man Sentenced for Illegal Fish Sales in Plaquemines Parish – Takes Undercover Agents on Illegal Charter!!!

Fishing vessel on fire capsized in port docked at Manzanillo, Mexico

Montauk’s Dock to Dish Steers The East End Toward Locally Caught Seafood

NMFS Announces Control Date of December 14, 2015 for Mid Atlantic Blueline Tilefish Catch Share Fishery

A Community Fishery Starts In Montauk

Carlos Rafael’s guilty plea in federal court draws mixed reactions

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