Tag Archives: Fishery shutdown
Editorial: Fishery shutdown would showcase economic impact
The senior counsel for the Conservation Law Foundation may be arguing for all the wrong reasons, but he makes a valid point: Read more here
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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Recent Posts
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Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 55′ RI Marine Day Scalloper
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North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for February 9, 2018
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Return to Swordfishing? Lost Fishing Tradition May Be Restored – public hearing in Gloucester on Thursday, March 28.
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WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL — The historic schooner Adventuress ‘belle of ball’
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Possible rule changes for hogfish overfishing
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They were trapped inside the wheelhouse at the time of capsize and it was full of water, no air pockets, and Curtis Green from Russell’s Marine fuel pier jumped in the water,”
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Northeast fishing chief: Devastating cuts coming – said blame for the situation goes to managers, because “we set the rules and clearly the rules have failed.”
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Tribal fishing activist Billy Frank Jr. dies
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Judge orders federal prison for illegally smuggling live fish and corals from Florida Keys waters
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BREAKING: Fisherman John Aldridge, a crewmember of the F/V Anna Mary has been rescued.
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Vineyard Wind and R.I. strike bargain. R.I. Fishery Advisory Board chairman doesn’t like settlement. Nobody does.
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Maine is running out of lobster bait. Is salmon the answer?
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Coast Guard Tows Disabled Fishing Boat 200 Miles To Cape Cod Bay
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‘It used to be just simple:’ Maine lobstermen concerned for future of industry
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Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 44’11” Fiberglass Crabber, 8 Cylinder Detroit
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Good season for Northumberland lobster
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Citizen science: Volunteers analyze images in crowdsourced scallop research project
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Pacific Halibut Season to Open Saturday at Noon
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Fishermen submit hundreds of comments on leasing Gulf of Maine for offshore wind
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Sealing industry is much more than the sealers. Its other jobs, too
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Breaking: Coast Guard searching for missing commercial fisherman between Cape May and Delaware
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Lloyd Earl “Bucky” Chatham of Seadrift, Texas, a retired commercial fisherman has passed away
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Another View: Bay Delta Conservation plan still evolving as more is learned – William Stelle Jr.,West Coast salmon coordinator , NMFS
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Crossing the Bar: Captain Roswell P. Staples, of Rockland, Maine
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Speed limits, snow crab season changes coming to help save the whales
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