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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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Crab catch price creeps up and plants ramp up as delayed N.L. harvest enters third week
The protests and the rhetoric have somewhat subsided, and the catch price has improved slightly, as Newfoundland and Labrador’s long delayed and controversy-riddled snow crab harvest Read More » -
Mayor Mitchell brags about New Bedford’s port status, but endorses projects that hurt fishing industry
“This was a really sad day for us. After 24 years of docking our lobster/fishing boats at Marine Hydraulics, the City of New Bedford has decided Read More » -
Lest We Forget: The USCG Lifeboat Triumph-F/V Mermaid tragedy 60 years ago
At approximately 4:15 p.m., on Thursday, Jan. 12, 1961, Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment, at the mouth of the Columbia River, received a radio call from Read More » -
Connecticut lobster industry in hot water
This fall, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection will close the lobster fishery in the state for three months. continued@theday Read More » -
Will GE salmon opposition be the ‘kiss of death’ for Aquabounty?
Avaaz.org, self-described as an international citizens group, has collected nearly 1 million — 991,340, to be precise — signatures for its “Stop the Frankenfish attack” petition Read More » -
FFAW Responds to Seafood Watch “Avoid” Placement of Snow Crab, Norther American Lobster
The FFAW is responding to the US-based Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch which has placed North American lobster and Canadian snow crab among seafood species to Read More » -
Dick Grachek – Pew laboring overtime on Tuna, in the Biblical sense.
Couldn’t resist; spent the whole day on this, got so fired up at their blatant BS. DG Fish News EU reports another missive from Pew (see Read More » -
N.S. won’t introduce lobster levy right away
A proposed new levy on lobster will not take effect this winter, Fisheries Minister Keith Colwell said Thursday. “We want to consult more with the industry Read More » -
China’s fishing numbers don’t add up, UBC researcher Pauly says
But the impact of that wasn’t known until Daniel Pauly at the University of British Columbia’s Fisheries Centre used a statistical technique known as the Monte Read More » -
Coast Guard medevacs crewmember from fishing vessel 180 miles south of Pensacola, Florida
The Coast Guard medevaced a 45-year-old man approximately 180 miles south of Pensacola, Florida, Monday. Coast Guard Sector Mobile watchstanders received a call at 10:26 a.m. Read More » -
Protecting gray seals — when does success become excess?
The ever-expanding gray seal population in our coastal waters is protected in perpetuity by the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. The success of the act Read More » -
Roger Berkowitz, Legal Sea Foods CEO talk’s about the new restrictions on New England fishermen – Video
In addition, Berkowitz also weighs in on everything from global warming and impact on fish stock to traffic in the innovation district. more@necn 11:36 Read More » -
Community meeting sees scathing opposition to offshore wind farm in Coos Bay and Brookings
Between one to two hundred concerned residents and stakeholders packed the Salmon Conference room of the Mill Casino last night in the small coastal town of Read More » -
Fishermen’s Wives attorney responds to Coast Guard claims that the helicopter is not needed in Newport
Fishermen’s Wives attorney Michael Haglund has filed his clients’ rebuttal to the Coast Guard’s allegations that they have done their homework to justify the closure of Read More » -
Commercial Crabber Fined for Overfishing
California wants a Washington state seafood company fined for the nearly two tons of dead Dungeness crabs it had to dump from a 17-ton haul: far Read More » -
Hero skipper who saved his crew when their boat was blown up killed himself after his rescue left him suffering with PTSD
A heroic fisherman who saved his crew when his boat was blown up by an unexploded Second World War bomb killed himself after suffering from PTSD, an Read More » -
Marine Stewardship Council Under Scrutiny Over Bycatch
On Thursday, a coalition of environmental groups accused the world’s largest certification agency for sustainably sourced seafood of “allowing fisheries with widely unacceptable impacts to be Read More » -
The name is hagfish but you can call it a ‘slime eel.’ Meet a new Alaska fishery.
Consider the hagfish. Maybe you’ve never heard of these deep ocean creatures, also called “slime eels” for their eel-like appearance and ability to secrete huge amounts Read More » -
The Ocean State Says Goodbye to Its Beloved ‘Herring Man’
Paul Bettencourt was called a lot of things, most notably “The Herring Man” and “The Baitman.” The latter appears one word into his obituary. His youngest Read More » -
P.E.I. Mi’kmaw chiefs denounce DFO’s ‘moderate livelihood’ fishery plan
A news release from P.E.I.’s Mi’kmaw chiefs Thursday called the plan “both unlawful and disrespectful.” “DFO’s continued paternalistic approach to our rights-based fishery goes against the Read More » -
Lobstermen Question State Whale Plan at Waldoboro Meeting
Lobstermen expressed a mix of frustration and acceptance upon hearing the state’s new plan to protect North American right whales during a meeting in Waldoboro on Read More » -
Fish quota limits spark debate GloucesterTimes.com
In May 2010, just at the moment NOAA put into operation a free trading commodity market for groundfishermen who were given an allocation and joined into a Read More » -
Scots seafood firm blames coronavirus and Brexit as it closes doors after 12 years
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Village stops as service honours lost crewman, Steven Cole Nickerson
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F/V Kristi sinks near Clark’s point, all onboard survive
Shortly after midnight on Saturday, July 14, the F/V Kristi lost power. The tide was coming in, and the boat floated in the current at 5 Read More »
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