Ocean Resource Privatization
Articles Posted by Date
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
-
Recent Posts
-
I urge the People of Massachusetts to Get That Vote to Scott Brown.
Scott Brown has been a fighter for all US Fishermen, not just Massachusetts Fishermen. We are losing the roar of Barney Frank. We CANNOT lose Brown. Read More » -
Sheboygan history: Fishing boats from yesterday and today in photo’s
The J.B. Nelson is docked at the Sheboygan riverfront, Saturday, November 20, 2021, in Sheboygan, Wis. According to Harvey Hadland’s online history of fishing vessels of Read More » -
Southeast Alaska: Commercial Dungeness fall fishery better than expected
The summer season for Dungeness crab didn’t go so well. In fact, it was the lowest harvest in over 30 years and managers ended up closing Read More » -
Coronavirus: Shellfish industry calls for government support – Fishermen face bleak year as pandemic bites
The East Yorkshire coast is home to the UK’s largest crab and lobster fishing industry, with about 80% of the catch exported. Fishing has been suspended Read More » -
Exposed wind farm electric transmission line at Block Island beach causing concern
There is a controversy over a high voltage power line to and from Block Island that’s supposed to be buried. But it’s not. In fact, at Read More » -
Trawler Goes Aground in Norway’s High Arctic
The Norwegian Coast Guard is moving quickly to respond to the trawler Northguider, which grounded Friday in a narrow strait between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet, well above Read More » -
On This Day: November 26 – 1898: Killer gale sinks SS Portland, 100 die
The recorded maritime history of the East Coast details many storms with high incidences of vessels and people lost. Killer gales were recorded in 1839, 1851, Read More » -
Lucky winner gets 3-acre Wellfleet shellfish grant in ‘unprecedented’ lottery
For the first time in recent memory, a shellfish grant was returned to the town and leased to a new shellfish farmer via lottery on June Read More » -
Coast Guard medevacs sick fisherman 6 miles off Nantucket
A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod aircrew medevaced a 40-year-old man experiencing abdominal pain Tuesday six miles southwest of Nantucket. The captain of the fishing Read More » -
Special Management Zones SMZs approved for Delaware reefs
Forces fighting to get commercial fishing gear off artificial reefs got a boost on Wednesday at the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council (MAFMC) meeting in Virginia. Read Read More » -
NOAA to vet buyers, Carlos Rafael divesting fleet as part of civil settlement, serving time in criminal case
Charles Green, the acting chief of the enforcement section of NOAA’s office of general counsel, told the New England Fishery Management Council that Rafael has closed Read More » -
Illegal firework blamed for devastating partial amputation of a hand on a Morro Bay fishing boat
Firefighters are reminding people about the dangers of illegal fireworks after a person was injured on a 60-foot fishing boat Thursday night. Morro Bay Fire says Read More » -
Coronavirus: NOAA Fisheries is temporarily waiving requirement for vessels to carry a fishery observer or at-sea monitor.
As part of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NOAA Fisheries is temporarily waiving the requirement for vessels with Northeast fishing permits to carry a fishery Read More » -
FFAW-Unifor upset with DFO decision to draft inadequate northern shrimp plan
The Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW-Unifor) union is criticizing a decision to move forward with drafting a rebuilding plan for northern shrimp that it calls Read More » -
A Fundraiser for Wesley VanHook funeral expenses
On November 19 my brother in law was killed in a tragic commercial fishing accident. He didn’t have any kind of insurance. Were unfortunately not able Read More » -
Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 45′ Fiberglass Lobster Boat, 750HP John Deere
To review specifications, information, and 24 photos’, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here< 12:00 Read More » -
Scientists fear Canada will fish bluefin tuna and other species to extinction
Top marine scientists are denouncing Canada’s management of fish stocks as a commercially driven approach threatening to wipe out species at risk. Read more Read More » -
Nova Scotia fishermen win back right to operate as Local 4 of Maritime Fishermen’s Union
A Nova Scotia fishermen’s local has won a court case to get back its union accreditation. “It means we can get back to the business of Read More » -
Six missing workers presumed dead after Baltimore bridge collapse, US Coast Guard says
A desperate search was launched to try and trace six construction workers who plunged 185ft into the cold waters below the bridge. Given the time they Read More » -
Canada’s biggest lobster fishery on notice after Right Whale entanglement in Nova Scotia gear
The entanglement of a North Atlantic right whale in Canadian lobster gear earlier this year will increase scrutiny this season on the lucrative southwestern Nova Scotia Read More » -
Sen. Peter Micciche is again moving to establish a buyback program for set-net permits in Cook Inlet
The program would reduce the number of commercial set-net fishermen on the east side of the inlet. Proponents of the bill, like Kenai Peninsula Fishermen’s Association Read More » -
Teamwork triumphs over trouble
Preparation met opportunity last week off Cape San Blas, when a team of first responders plucked a group of longline grouper fishermen off a boat sinking Read More » -
Gloucester Police Department investigating apparent attempt to sink family’s fishing vessels
Officers responding to a report of vandalism at Captain Joe’s Marina at 95 East Main St. found three boats with holes drilled into their hulls, according Read More » -
Federal judge rules fishery managers failed to prevent overfishing of northern anchovy
A federal judge has ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) must go back to the drawing board and redo the catch limit for northern Read More » -
Trump Is Reorganizing The Federal Government And Interior Secretary Zinke Loves It
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to reorganize the federal government, a welcome move for Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke as he attempts Read More »
-
Archives
- May 2024 (43)
- April 2024 (191)
- March 2024 (209)
- February 2024 (192)
- January 2024 (211)
- December 2023 (188)
- November 2023 (202)
- October 2023 (180)
- September 2023 (101)
- August 2023 (241)
- July 2023 (237)
- June 2023 (211)
- May 2023 (235)
- April 2023 (210)
- March 2023 (215)
- February 2023 (179)
- January 2023 (187)
- December 2022 (178)
- November 2022 (187)
- October 2022 (190)
- September 2022 (177)
- August 2022 (203)
- July 2022 (186)
- June 2022 (184)
- May 2022 (186)
- April 2022 (190)
- March 2022 (219)
- February 2022 (167)
- January 2022 (192)
- December 2021 (191)
- November 2021 (182)
- October 2021 (196)
- September 2021 (197)
- August 2021 (205)
- July 2021 (221)
- June 2021 (211)
- May 2021 (221)
- April 2021 (204)
- March 2021 (202)
- February 2021 (188)
- January 2021 (195)
- December 2020 (193)
- November 2020 (181)
- October 2020 (204)
- September 2020 (195)
- August 2020 (189)
- July 2020 (205)
- June 2020 (194)
- May 2020 (225)
- April 2020 (218)
- March 2020 (216)
- February 2020 (209)
- January 2020 (233)
- December 2019 (227)
- November 2019 (240)
- October 2019 (241)
- September 2019 (241)
- August 2019 (270)
- July 2019 (288)
- June 2019 (270)
- May 2019 (263)
- April 2019 (223)
- March 2019 (210)
- February 2019 (155)
- January 2019 (117)
- December 2018 (216)
- November 2018 (169)
- October 2018 (218)
- September 2018 (247)
- August 2018 (258)
- July 2018 (259)
- June 2018 (250)
- May 2018 (251)
- April 2018 (247)
- March 2018 (266)
- February 2018 (256)
- January 2018 (278)
- December 2017 (309)
- November 2017 (281)
- October 2017 (288)
- September 2017 (275)
- August 2017 (284)
- July 2017 (287)
- June 2017 (273)
- May 2017 (276)
- April 2017 (275)
- March 2017 (300)
- February 2017 (252)
- January 2017 (288)
- December 2016 (263)
- November 2016 (268)
- October 2016 (287)
- September 2016 (284)
- August 2016 (293)
- July 2016 (286)
- June 2016 (273)
- May 2016 (246)
- April 2016 (267)
- March 2016 (260)
- February 2016 (265)
- January 2016 (269)
- December 2015 (266)
- November 2015 (281)
- October 2015 (289)
- September 2015 (286)
- August 2015 (298)
- July 2015 (294)
- June 2015 (329)
- May 2015 (316)
- April 2015 (317)
- March 2015 (324)
- February 2015 (301)
- January 2015 (332)
- December 2014 (322)
- November 2014 (330)
- October 2014 (382)
- September 2014 (340)
- August 2014 (347)
- July 2014 (376)
- June 2014 (401)
- May 2014 (344)
- April 2014 (341)
- March 2014 (375)
- February 2014 (374)
- January 2014 (360)
- December 2013 (294)
- November 2013 (372)
- October 2013 (391)
- September 2013 (461)
- August 2013 (566)
- July 2013 (526)
- June 2013 (447)
- May 2013 (475)
- April 2013 (508)
- March 2013 (459)
- February 2013 (352)
- January 2013 (265)
- December 2012 (206)
- November 2012 (168)
- October 2012 (187)
- September 2012 (126)
- August 2012 (4)
Tags
Alaska Alaska Department of Fish and Game Athearn Marine Agency Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Boat of the Week BOEM Brexit British Columbia California canada Coast Guard commercial fisherman commercial fishermen commercial fishing Coronavirus Department of Fisheries and Oceans DFO Dungeness crab FFAW FISH-NL Gulf of Maine Gulf of St. Lawrence lobster Louisiana maine Maine Department of Marine Resources massachusetts National Marine Fisheries Service new-england-fishery-management-council Newfoundland and Labrador New Jersey NMFS NOAA North Atlantic right whale North Carolina Fisheries Association North Pacific Fishery Management Council Nova Scotia Obituary offshore wind offshore wind farm offshore wind farms Oregon Scotland United Kingdom weekly update
Comments
- Joel Hovanesian on A Letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren
- borehead - Moderator on A Letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren
- Joel Hovanesian on A Letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren
- Joel Hovanesian on It’s Been a Brutal Year for Offshore Wind — Despite Analysts’ Best Guesses
- Dennis Haldane on Commercial Fisherman Gainhart (Bud) Samuelson Junior, 77, of Petersburg has passed away
- Garnet Sullivan on Man accused of assaulting conservation officer after elvers bust in downtown Dartmouth
- B on 3 New York wind farms scrapped – Cost implications for Mass., Conn., and R.I.
- Cindy on More things to worry about by Jerry Leeman
- Mark on More things to worry about by Jerry Leeman
- Joel Hovanesian on Where Have All The Right Whales Gone?
- Sid Hounsell on BREAKING: FFAW AND ASP REACH AGREEMENT TO GET SNOW CRAB FISHERY STARTED
- Sid Hounsell on BREAKING: FFAW AND ASP REACH AGREEMENT TO GET SNOW CRAB FISHERY STARTED
- Scott on California’s ocean salmon fishing season closed for second year in a row
- Fran Szymanek on Offshore Wind Electrical Substations; The Secret, Silent Killers by Jim Lovgren
- Nils Stolpe on Time to save the Right Whale from the Green-Left
- Joel Hovanesian on Time to save the Right Whale from the Green-Left
- Chris Iversen on California – Crabbers likely to use new gear next season
- Nils Stolpe on Time to save the Right Whale from the Green-Left
- John Harrison jr on NOAA/NMFS Ignores Dangerous Sound Levels from Pile Driving – By Jim Lovgren
- Chip J on Overspreading Since the Seventies
- borehead - Moderator on Time to save the Right Whale from the Green-Left
- Mike Jacobs on Time to save the Right Whale from the Green-Left
- Joel Hovanesian on East End fishermen uneasy over wind farm South Fork Wind
- Jason taylor on Mi’kmaw fishers say DFO officers left them to walk for hours at night after seizing boots, phones
- Brick Wenzel on East End fishermen uneasy over wind farm South Fork Wind
- Chris Kinder on ENGO Sues UK Government Over International Fishing Quotas
- borehead - Moderator on Mystic Aquarium (the Whale People) expands offshore wind exhibit with youth in mind
- Kath on Mystic Aquarium (the Whale People) expands offshore wind exhibit with youth in mind
- John Harrison jr on Commercial fishermen react to MFC mullet decision
- borehead - Moderator on The CARES Act: Lengthy Process, Little to Show for Connecticut Fisheries
-
Facebook