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Western Aleutian Processors Snag Business From Kodiak Plants. Fishing for History? Audio

April 4, 2013 North Pacific

Unalaska Community Broadcasting – For the past year, pollock and cod fishing off Kodiak has been booming — but processing plants in town say they aren’t seeing enough of that business. That’s because more than 14 million pounds of pollock and cod caught near Kodiak during the 2012 “B” season was shipped to plants in Akutan, King Cove, and Sand Point. continued

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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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Western Aleutian Processors Snag Business From Kodiak Plants. Fishing for History? Audio

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date

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

Recent Posts

North Pacific Fishery Management Council allows sport guides to buy commercial halibut quota

Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 36′ Ellis Harpoon Boat, 600HP, Daytona Mack E7 Diesel

Weighing Anchor, But Much More to the Story

There’s Whale Meat in the Beer! – Icelandic ‘whale beer’ condemned by conservationists

Pictou fish plant depends on foreign workers program, says owner

Hurricane Ida: Float the Boat Program offers help to local commercial fishermen

Federal scrutiny on the Bounty’s ill-fated final voyage

Hundreds of pounds of Lake Erie fish left to spoil in untended nets

3 people rescued from shrimp boat fire off Ft. Myers Beach

Six fishermen feared dead off trawler screamed from inside boat as crewmate clung to hull

Discovery Channel’s ‘Lobstermen’ Star Captain Tim Handrigan Delivers Live, Fresh Lobsters to Doorsteps Nationwide

F/V OPTIMUS – Maiden Voyage

Pew Enviro Groups eye Marine National Monuments protections for Cashes Ledge, canyons, seamounts off Cape Cod

R.I. quota for menhaden the focus of debate

Ocean conditions appear improving for salmon

Prices for commercial halibut shares reach jaw-dropping level

Commercial Lobsterman Norbert B. Stamps Jr., of Charlestown, R.I., has passed away

Stephen Taufen sent me a can of Fields Wild Salmon, Premium Red! I feel ALIVE!

Unalaska opposes new ‘Super 8’ fishing vessels

Gear Wars: Scallop dredgers accused of sabotaging creel fishing gear

Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing boat 80 miles west of Hernando

Russian pollock sector soon to be as consolidated as US – 2 Foreign Companies OWN 50% of all US POLLOCK

Fish fight: Western Alaska group objects to McDonald’s marketing

Conecticut lobstermen fighting for survival

Phil Paleologos: The Canastra Brothers withdraw their offer

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