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3 saved after clam boat F/V Miss Laurie catches fire on Housatonic – F/V Red Witch and others rush to the flame engulfed vessel

June 8, 2014 New England

Kevin Jones-Santiago and the rest of the crew aboard the Red Witch were busy sorting clams for market in the Housatonic River on Saturday afternoon when suddenly they heard a pop. Another clamming boat a mile out, Miss Laurie was suddenly engulfed in flames five to 10 feet in the air. The crew quickly pulled up their dredges, picked up their hoses and Captain Timothy Griffith turned the boat around. Read more here 16:10

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F/V “Miss Laurie” Commercial Fishing Boat Catches Fire On Housatonic – Details are sketchy

June 8, 2014 New England

The three people were taken to Bridgeport Hospital, and the captain of the fishing boat suffered third-degree burns, the Coast Guard spokesman said.. Read more here 10:45

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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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3 saved after clam boat F/V Miss Laurie catches fire on Housatonic – F/V Red Witch and others rush to the flame engulfed vessel

F/V “Miss Laurie” Commercial Fishing Boat Catches Fire On Housatonic – Details are sketchy

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

Recent Posts

Deal reached in Newfoundland and Labrador crab fishery, harvesters to start fishing

American Eel Is in Danger of Extinction

How Britain’s tiny fishing industry became the symbol for Brexit

Nunavut officials press for Arctic search and rescue base – “Within the last six months we’ve had two near disasters”

FISH-NL schedules Friday protest at Confederation Building in St. John’s

Nunavut Inuit suing feds over fishing license allocations to Mi’kmaw company

ODFW gives up on trapping Willamette sea lions

Fishermen rescued off Cork coast in freezing temperatures and high winds

N.C. Department of Marine Fisheries increase commercial fishing licenses 100 percent

Michael Peele: A family fishing tradition lives on

New Bedford fishing industry considers compensation for offshore wind’s impact

U.S. puts restrictions on Mexican boats over illegal fishing

Crab plant gets court order against fishermen

National Marine Fisheries Service Announces Final Rule to Adjust the 2016 North and South Atlantic Swordfish Quotas

Apalachicola: Fully-funded oysterman retraining stirs scant interest – they like what they do.

Effects from BP spill linger

Denmark pays out Brexit compensation

Eastern Fisheries severs ties with staffing firms in wake of NLRB case

FISH-NL says DFO has blood on its hands; department policy contributed to deaths of four Shea Heights fishermen in 2016

A safety program created for fishermen and delivered by fishermen test piloted in British Columbia

Tampering with our Future – Genetically engineered fish, the FDA and labeling GE/GMO foods, By Anne Mosness

Connecticut’s traditional fishing catch is heading north – New England marine life on the move

Fishing boat catches fire near Bandon, 4 aboard unhurt

Three New Zealand Fishermen sentenced to prison in the Falklands

Council closes scallop beds; raises crew levels

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