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Vessel Incidental Discharge Act awaits action – If you wash your deck or pump a bildge, it affects you.

September 13, 2014 National

Commercial fishermen like Bradley Styron, owner and operator of Quality Seafood of Cedar Island, wash their decks and pump out their bilge water on a regular basis during their everyday operations. But if a bill currently before the Senate doesn’t get passed, they might have to meet tougher environmental regulations to do so. Read the rest here 17:46

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Senate Commerce Committee approves S 2094, the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act

July 24, 2014 National

Incidental discharges by commercial vessels less than 79 feet, all commercial fishing vessels including seafood processors. Read more here 17:36

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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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