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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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    In our fall issue, John McElwee writes about the Blue Monday Shad Fry, held every spring in East Arcadia, North Carolina. The photography of documentarian Chris Read More »
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    Forum to examine politics behind Alaska’s chinook conservation problem

    Southeast salmon fishermen are pushing back against deep restrictions in the king harvest this season, saying the problem is as much political as it is biological. Read More »

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    Jim Dixon was 14 years old when he started working in the holding ponds at  Dixon Fisheries in East Peoria. Today he is president of a Read More »
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    From grief to gratitude – April McCarthy’s husband was lost at sea

    April McCarthy walks down a gravel path in the cemetery in Tors Cove, a small community on Newfoundland’s Southern Shore, towards her husband’s grave. She picks Read More »
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  • VIDEO – Bureau of Land Management, NOAA, NMFS, US Interior, BOEM, National Ocean Policy Same Same Same

    Support Nevada Cattle Rancher Cliven Bundy – You will be supporting your industry too.  This is all too familiar. It must stop. Watch this video. 10:22 Read More »

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    A 10-square-mile oil slick off the California coast is thinner than a coat of paint and it’s becoming harder to skim from choppy waters, officials said Read More »
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    Coast guard ship breakdown ends 48-year science survey streak

    For the first time in 48 years, Canadian fisheries scientists failed to complete an annual summer survey off Nova Scotia because of a mechanical breakdown on Read More »
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    Bristol Bay Fisheries Report: July 4, 2021

    A message to Captain Mike “Fishhead” Fourtner and crew on the F/V Bonnie B. They say another Independence Day fishing the bay and thinking “salmon fireworks” Read More »
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    Bristol Bay fishermen up in arms against lower salmon prices, will protest

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  • Lifelines for Cape Pond Ice

    This is symbolic posting of GDT. They have changed to a pay access venue. All historic material that we used to promote the industry is on lock Read More »
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    Brexit trade deal leaves Welsh fishermen ‘devastated’

    New rules to replace the EU Common Fisheries Policy mean 76 French and Belgian trawlers can fish within six miles of the Welsh coast until 2026. Read More »

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  • FISH-NL claims victory with DFO measures to help inshore harvesters 

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    ‘These boys loved what they did’: Former crabber on missing Destination talks about lost boat, lost brother

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    Swiss lobster stunning device awaited

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