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Booming Season Ahead for Bering Sea Crab Fisheries

October 8, 2014 North Pacific

Total allowable catches set for Bering Sea tanner crab, red king crab and St. Matthew Island blue king crab for the season opening Oct. 15 are bound to keep harvesters real busy. The tanner crab quota for the Eastern Bering Sea is 8,480,000 pounds, with 7,632,000 pounds allocated to holders of individual fishing quota and 848,000 pounds for community development quota groups,, Read the rest here 19:06

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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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Booming Season Ahead for Bering Sea Crab Fisheries

Ocean Resource Privatization

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

Recent Posts

DFO wins court victory to prevent corporate control of inshore fishery in Atlantic Canada and Quebec

West Coast Crab Strike is Over

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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update August 4, 2013

Alaskan Commercial Fishing Couple Charged with Willful Failure to Pay Over $400,000 in Income Taxes on Income Earned for 13 Years

Industry Killer Maria Damanaki will head Natural Conservancy’s ocean division to continue the carnage

Newlyn Fishermen fear for their future as Coronavirus threatens a second wave

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Fisherman loses most of his lobster traps in fire

The $75 king fillet: Copper River salmon fetch big money at market

Yukon River Panel hears fishing moratorium on Yukon River chinook may be ‘too little, too late’

Shrimpers in Darien prepare for the season ahead

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Southeast Alaska’s 2020-21 commercial Dungeness crab season harvest is the 2nd largest on record

Coast Guard saves 4 men from a sinking fishing vessel Captain R. M. Chace near Chatham, Mass.

R.I. fishermen still without compensation deal from wind farm developer

Coast Guard conducts medevac of Injured Fisherman near Cold Bay, Alaska

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Showdown looms for lucrative Western Pacific tuna industry

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