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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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    Make way for Maine-New Hampshire trawl survey!

    The fall groundfish trawl survey conducted by the state of Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is scheduled to begin Oct. 2 in New Hampshire, working Read More »
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    20K-Pound Fresh Fish Catch Helps San Diego Maritime Industry

    Thousands of pounds of fish were offloaded Thursday in Point Loma, an occurrence that happens a few times a month in San Diego but is part Read More »

  • Storm brews over Maine’s monument offshore, too

    Zinke has recommended that the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument – a 4,913-square-mile area of underwater canyons, thousand-year-old coral forests, and volcanic mountains on Read More »

  • Board of Fish does not act on task force proposals

    The Alaska Board of Fisheries met last week to look at statewide finfish issues, and took up a proposal submitted by the Upper Cook Inlet Task Read More »

  • Sterling Belliveau: Inaction could lead to lobster quotas – independence of the fishery could be compromised

    NDP Fisheries critic Sterling Belliveau says the provincial government needs to be taking a more proactive approach to implementing the recommendations of the Maritime Lobster Panel. Read More »

  • North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for December 7, 2015

    Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 10:32 Read More »

  • Louisiana pogy industry faces backlash as reports show more massive fish spills

      When a menhaden ‘mothership’ and its net boats spilled a million fish and left the floating mass to rot off the Louisiana coast, the menhaden Read More »
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    More Florida manatees died in 2021 compared to any other year

    There have more manatee deaths so far this year in Florida compared to any other year in the state’s recorded history. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Read More »

  • Hurricane Irma Makes Landfall on Marco Island

    3:45 p.m. Hurricane Irma has made landfall on Marco Island, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Irma’s powerful eye Read More »

  • 11 groups helping NMFS develop disaster funds spending plan

    Congress appropriated the funds earlier this year in response to the on the Yukon River in 2010, 2011 and 2012, the Kuskokwim River in 2011 and Read More »
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    GA Among States to Receive Part of $20 Million in Fishery Disaster Funding

    The U.S. Department of Commerce allocated $20 million to help tribes, communities, fishermen, and businesses affected by commercial fishery failures that occurred in Georgia, California, Oregon, Read More »

  • Ocean Choice International complains of Clearwater Surf Clam monopoly

    Ocean Choice International (OCI) says a business proposal worth 150 jobs and an estimated $12 million in new payroll is being shut down by a federal Read More »

  • Coast Guard rescues man from disabled F/V Lisa Cheri near Petersburg, Alaska

    The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Anacapa rescued a man from a disabled fishing vessel near Petersburg Monday. The crew of the Anacapa rendezvoused with the Read More »
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    NOAA questions BOEM’s Vineyard Wind environmental impact study

    Michael Pentony, the head of NOAA’s Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office, warned in a March 15 letter that the report on Vineyard Wind completed by the Read More »
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    Canada’s most dangerous job

    Last week’s tragic accident in the waters of Northumberland Strait, off Cape Bear, in Eastern Prince Edward Island, was a reminder of the little acknowledged fact Read More »
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    World’s First All-Electric Longline Handling System

    F/V Kap Farvel is the first fishing boat in the world that started using the all-electric longline handling system from Mørenot. Already after one week of Read More »
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    Have you heard? Nutrient pollution is changing sounds in the sea

    Nutrient pollution emptying into seas from cities, towns and agricultural land is changing the sounds made by marine life – and potentially upsetting navigational cues for Read More »

  • Boat-building business starts operations in Eastport

    EASTPORT, Maine — Millennium Marine is up and running in Eastport, building boats for the fishing industry and other applications after setting up shop in vacant Read More »

  • Sacramento River salmon spawning threatened by massive water exports – Dan Bacher

    State and federal water officials are apparently now in a rush to deliver water to corporate agribusiness, oil companies and Southern California water agencies, in spite Read More »

  • Deep sea fishermen join activists at the Boston Seafood Expo to demand Wi-Fi on all boats

    Indonesian fisherman Susanto says he was on a Taiwanese commercial fishing vessel in the Pacific Ocean in 2022 when a fishhook flew out of a fish Read More »
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    GoFundMe and the Nag’s Head Light: How Crowdfunding Has Become The Latest Battleground Over Free Speech

    GoFundMe’s suspension of millions to support protesting truckers in Canada shocked many, particularly when the company initially announced its intention to distribute the money to other Read More »

  • California Commercial crab season to begin as domoic acid levels drop

    The California Department of Fish and Wildlife lifted prohibitions against fishing everywhere south of the Sonoma-Mendocino county line after state health officials determined the crabs “no Read More »
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    Race is on to get East Coast crab boats on the water before right whales return

    The Canadian Coast Guard committed Tuesday to doing all it can to help East Coast crab fishermen get on the water before the right whales arrive Read More »

  • Some guys really like fish! – Doctors pull a LIVE FISH from a man’s intestine – after it had shot up his backside.

    According to Hospital Universitario in Londrina, a city in southern Brazil, the unnamed man decided to put the fish into his own rear as part of Read More »
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    FISH FACTOR: First checks finally set for 2016 pink salmon disaster

    It’s been a long time coming but payments should soon be in hand for Alaska fishermen, processors and coastal communities hurt by the 2016 pink salmon Read More »

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