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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
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Endangered and Threatened Species: Critical Habitat for Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale-Proposed rule; request for comments.
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Fish Factory Vessel Leaking Ammonia in Tacoma
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Commercial Dungeness crab season opens January 15
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Video: Coast Guard rescues 4 fishermen, dog from F/V Ocean Viking southwest of Kodiak, Alaska
A Coast Guard Mh-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak rescues four fishermen and a dog from a life raft 190 miles southwest of Kodiak, Alaska, Read More » -
New York: Fishermen losing patience with probe of state regulators
The New York inspector general’s office plans to conclude its two-year probe of a state fisheries regulator “imminently,” but fishermen and their advocates awaiting long-promised action Read More » -
#PebbleMine: Donald Trump Jr. tweets opposition to Pebble Mine
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Non Profit Ecotrust and it’s For Profit Eco Branch. Point 97 clients include the Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund
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The Will of Wanchese by Susan West
Wanchese, North Carolina, wears its heart on its sleeve. Located on the southern tip of Roanoke Island, where the Roanoke and the Croatan sounds spill into the Read More » -
Frustrated fishermen meet with new NC fisheries director Braxton Davis
About 50 exasperated, even angry, commercial fishermen gathered Monday to meet the new director of the North Carolina agency that governs how these watermen make a Read More » -
Effort underway to protect the Boston Fish Pier
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Sam Parisi – Why I will be listening to other candidates in the next election.
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Tanya Tagaq: Anti-sealing movement is ‘the bad guy’
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Watermen get say on how to tackle ‘ghost pots’ in the Chesapeake Bay
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CRASH, BANG, SCALLOP! – Warships off the coast! French trawler rams UK boat as Jersey fishing stand-off escalates
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Department of Marine Resources emergency action on Scallop area closures
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Federal government to increase at-sea monitoring to 100%.
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North Carolina Fisheries Association – SPECIAL UPDATE!!!
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