FISH Safety Foundation – fisherynation.com

Tag Archives: FISH Safety Foundation

Safetytech Accelerator collaborates with FISH Safety Foundation to explore safety technology in fishing

May 26, 2022 International

Safetytech Accelerator has collaborated with FISH Safety Foundation to explore how technologies can improve the safety of the fishing industry. Fishing is one of the world’s most dangerous professions. New research by the FISH Safety Foundation suggests fisher mortality rates are significantly higher than the earlier estimates of 24,000 per year, on top of which we can assume a far higher rate of injuries. FISH Safety Foundation is focused on helping countries and organisations with training and advisory services, as well as assistance with the practical application of systems, legislative requirements and guidelines. >click to read< 10:57

Comment

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
April 2024

M T W T F S S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30

« Mar

April 2024
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

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

Recent Posts
- Missing fishermen feared dead ‘wouldn’t last more than five minutes’ in freezing Loch Fyne, says uncle
  
  The search for Duncan MacDougall, 46, and Przemek Krawczykis in the Argyll waters is now a recovery operation despite a heroic attempt to save them. The pair Read More »
- Never give up hope – Sam Parisi
  
  Just when I thought I had no help, my was voice heard. Senator Markey’s aid, Kate Marchet, called to tell me the Senator would be in Read More »
- Commercial Fisherman Alf Ludvig Forde of Mukilteo, Washington has passed away
  
  Alf Ludvig Forde (80) died peacefully at home in Mukilteo, Washington in the early morning January 4th, 2023 of natural causes. Alf was born November 9th, Read More »
- Fisherman facing life in prison after finding 20 kilo’s of cocaine at sea, setting up a distribution ring
  
  The question is often light-heartedly posited among friends in coastal towns of what one would do if he were to discover a bail of washed-up narcotics. Read More »
- Offshore Wind Energy Looks More Promising for Oregon
  
  A stretch of the Pacific Ocean off the coast between Humboldt County, California, and Coos Bay, Oregon, has some of the highest wind power generating potential Read More »
- Emotions run high over EPA’s Bristol Bay watershed study
  
  “Three years ago, commercial fishermen, Alaska Native tribes and sport fishermen asked the Obama Administration to protect the world’s greatest sockeye salmon fishery and the 14,000 Read More »
- “NO PIPE, NO WAY” Northern Pulp effluent pipe protest draws huge crowds on land and sea in Pictou
  
  Hundreds of people from all three Maritime provinces gathered Friday in Pictou, N.S., to protest Northern Pulp’s plan to put an effluent pipe into the Northumberland Read More »
- As the Brownsville Shrimp Fleet is blessed, Prices are plummeting
  
  Andrea Hance , executive director of the Brownsville-based Texas Shrimp Association, said the blessing is especially welcome this season. “Unfortunately this year the shrimp prices, they’re Read More »
- From one island to another: Crew recreates Essex-built boat’s Maine voyage
  
  More than 250 years ago, Abraham Somes, his wife Hannah and their four daughters piled into a Chebacco boat in Gloucester and sailed up the coast to Read More »
- Hurricane Dorian Update: Dorian becomes the strongest Hurricane in modern records for the Northwestern Bahamas
  
  At 1100 AM EDT (1500 UTC), the extremely distinct eye of Hurricane Dorian was located near latitude 26.5 North, longitude 76.8 West. Dorian is moving toward Read More »
- North Pacific council asks for three Gulf of Alaska papers – how to manage bycatch – adaptive management quota – community fishing associations
  
  The North Pacific Fishery Management Council asked for three discussion papers on issues associated with Gulf of Alaska trawl fisheries today. The 11-member council manages federal Read More »
- Hurricane Delta Public Advisory Notice
  
  At 700 AM CDT, the center of Hurricane Delta was located by NOAA and Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft near latitude 23.7 North, longitude 92.3 Read More »
- Examining the Impacts of Whales on Commerical Fisheries – Lenfest Ocean Program
  
  At the International Whaling Commission (IWC), a principle argument used by some pro-whaling countries to resume whaling has been that whales eat large amounts of fish Read More »
- Blue Moon Fish – New York Couple Happy as Clams Selling Fish Direct to the Public
  
  Alex and Stephanie Villani enjoy an enviable life. They live in a beautiful, secluded home with a big pool on Long Island’s idyllic North Fork. They Read More »
- West Coast waters shifting to lower-productivity regime, new NOAA report finds
  
  Large-scale climate patterns that affect the Pacific Ocean indicate that waters off the West Coast have shifted toward warmer, less productive conditions that may affect marine Read More »
- Coast Guard rescues 4 from F/V Jo Marie near Brookings, Ore.
  
  SEATTLE — A Coast Guard boatcrew from Station Chetco River, in Brookings, Ore., rescued four people after a 62-foot fishing vessel allided (collided?) with the Chetco River South Read More »
- Commercial Fishing, conference center on the City of Monterey council agenda
  
  The council will hear the results of a 2012 grant-financed study on the sustainability of commercial fishing in Monterey. The city and Morro Bay were awarded Read More »
- Coast Guard saves 6 from scalloper sinking off New Bedford, MA
  
  The Coast Guard and local responders rescued 6 people Sunday from a 72-foot scallop boat sinking five miles off New Bedford. A person aboard the scallop boat, Read More »
- On-Demand Lobster and Jonah Crab Gear Testing off Massachusetts and Rhode Island Gets Underway
  
  The Northeast Fisheries Science Center Gear Research Team is collaborating with up to 30 commercial lobster vessels to test on-demand (also called ropeless) fishing gear in state Read More »
- Bloc Québécois wants more squid fishing after feds cut herring quota
  
  Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet asked Fisheries and Oceans Canada on Sunday to allow squid fishing to compensate for the decrease in quotas for the fall Read More »
- Canada is ready to create a joint venture with Russian companies on the catch of king crab in the Barents sea
  
  Representatives of the fishing industry Canada is ready to create a joint venture on extraction of snow crab in the Barents sea. In addition, canadian business Read More »
- One of Sheepshead Bay’s last fishing boat captains says he’ll go down with the ships
  
  To Robert Sapanara, the sea is friend and foe, but his passion for it remains undeterred. “There are no words to describe how breathtaking the ocean Read More »
- Land-based salmon farm on Vancouver Island nears economic viability
  
  North America’s only land-based Atlantic salmon farm battled through technical and equipment issues in 2015, but the operators are edging close to covering production and overhead Read More »
- ‘Bluefin Blowout’? You mean Bluefin Blowoff! – Everyone showed up but the tuna
  
  It’s not as if they weren’t trying. Forty-five boats went out on Friday on the first day of fishing in the second Bluefin Blowout at Cape Read More »
- NOAA Calls for Protection of Female North Atlantic Right Whales
  
  NOAA Fisheries researchers and colleagues are taking a closer look as to why the endangered western North Atlantic right whale population is growing at far more Read More »