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Bristol Bay fishery needs protection from oil and gas leasing – Hell! We all do!

December 4, 2014 National, North Pacific, Offshore Wind/Industrialization

Alaskans know that Bristol Bay is all about wild salmon. For thousands of years the people of Bristol Bay have thrived on this bounty and for more than 130 years, it has supported a major sustainable commercial fishery that supplies the world. Bristol Bay produces 50 percent of the world’s sockeye salmon, making the region of true global importance. Read the rest here 22:56

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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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Bristol Bay fishery needs protection from oil and gas leasing – Hell! We all do!

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

This is not good, friends. Not good at all. Parasites in Yellowtail Flounder Could be Preventing Population Rebound

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Seafood Processing Company Pushes Forward With New Jobs Plans – Video

Jimmy Buchan: Embrace Brexit for the sake of fishing industry

The real Sea Wolf: Russians try to tame ‘Sea Wolf’ Captain Alexander MacLean (Part 2)

FDA cites Linda Bean’s lobster processing plant for health violations

Bi Partisan push to stop East Coast Oil/Gas Exploration

Coast Guard cuts ribbon on new Menemsha boathouse

Crab glut could halt Newfoundland and Labrador fishery again

Coast Guard assists vessel aground in Sukhoi Bay, Alaska

Commercial fishing business/vessel owner Jewell Thomas “Tom” English III of Oak Island, Texas, has passed away

Cable Under Gardiner’s Bay Sparks Debate – Trustees, baymen talk wind farm landing sites

Oregon – Brookings, Newport lead Dungeness crab totals – ranks sixth in the last 15 years.

The Recovery Plan for the Sunken Fishing Tender Lone Star Includes Towing the Vessel to Dutch Harbor

Commercial fisherman slams Noosa sustainability critic

Bristol Bay Fisheries Report: July 11, 2021

Weather may delay opening of lobster season

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Salmon gillnetting to resume Aug. 7 in the Columbia River

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