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Lobstermen in Maine ready for debate over license wait list

February 3, 2019 New England

There are few things in Maine as coveted as a lobster fishing license, and a proposal to bring dozens of people off the state’s license waiting list has fishermen in the state ready for a debate. More than 200 people are waiting in the wings for a lobstering license, which has long been a ticket to the middle class for working coastal Mainers. But a proposal before a state legislative committee would bring new people into the fishery who have been waiting for 10 or more years. >click to read<12:40

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Chase the Ace winner helps son to follow his dream of becoming a fisherman!

March 21, 2016 Canada

A Nova Scotia woman who won $1.7 million in a local lottery that triggered a province-wide “Chase the Ace” craze says her son has been able to follow his dream of becoming a lobster fisherman because of her winnings. Donelda MacAskill won the jackpot last October in a game of Chase the Ace that drew tens of thousands of people to the tiny Cape Breton community of Inverness. The 61-year-old woman from Englishtown, N.S., said since her big win, she’s helped her 38-year-old son Kenzie follow in his father’s footsteps to attain a lobster fishing license of his own. Read the rest here 11:28

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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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