HERRING: Atlantic Herring Days Out Call -July 10, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, JULY 8, 2019

PRESS CONTACT, TINA BERGER, 703.842.0740

ASMFC Atlantic Herring Days Out Conference Call

Scheduled for July 10, 2019 at 1:00 PM

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Herring Management Board members from Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts set effort control measures for the Area 1A (inshore Gulf of Maine) fishery via Days Out meetings/calls.

Atlantic Herring Board members from Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts are scheduled to convene via conference call to consider changing the start date of the Area 1A fishery on:

Wednesday, July 10th at 1:00 PM

To join the call, please dial 888.585.9008 and enter conference room number 746-824-914 as prompted.

For more information, please contact Kirby Rootes-Murdy, Senior Fishery Management Plan Coordinator, at [email protected] or 703.842.0740.

A PDF of the announcement can be found here – http://www.asmfc.org/files/AtlHerring/M19__52AtlHerringDaysOutMeasures_July2019.pdf
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Tina Berger
Director of Communications
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
1050 N. Highland Street, Suite 200A-N
Arlington, VA 22201
www.asmfc.org
[email protected]
Sustainable and Cooperative Management of Atlantic Coastal Fisheries

Melissa D. Smith
Marine Resource Management Coordinator
Maine Department of Marine Resources
21 State House Station, 32 Blossom Lane
Augusta, ME 04333-0021
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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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