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Kodiak jig fishermen explore other markets during poor cod season

April 12, 2018 North Pacific

Kodiak processors and fishermen are seeing the effects of the 80 percent cut to cod quota in the Gulf of Alaska. Some small boat fishermen who previously relied on targeting cod are turning to other means to make a profit. One way to do that is to join a community supported fishery, or CSF. That’s what some Kodiak jig fishermen are doing to bolster their incomes. Jig fisherman Darius Kasprzak holds up a scrap piece of iron from WWII. He says he picked it up off a beach and uses it as a weight for his line. “When people were making money cod fishing, you’d just buy lead weights, but those days are over.” >click to read< 14:36

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Galesburg fishing start-up catches Forbes’ eye

December 10, 2012 North Pacific

The president of one of Galesburg’s most successful start-up companies was as surprised as anyone to find his company featured on the Forbes magazine website. Sitka Salmon Shares was included in an article titled ‘Seven Sustainable Foodie Holiday Gifts.’ Company President Nic Mink said he began wondering what was going on when he noticed a huge spike in traffic on the Sitka website Wednesday. He said it took him a while to figure out what was going on. http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1781242594/Galesburg-fishing-start-up-catches-Forbes-eye

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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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