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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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    Truck Beach Trespassing Cases May Head Out of Town

    Attorneys for oceanfront property owners along what is popularly known as Truck Beach on Napeague have convinced a New York State Supreme Court judge to move Read More »

  • New Bedford fishing tycoon Carlos Rafael fighting move to dismiss lawsuit

    After Labor Day, as the weather cools off, a lawsuit against the state filed by local fishing industry tycoon Carlos Rafael will begin heating up in Read More »

  • Rhode Island company proposes wind farm 30 miles off Montauk

    “It’s green energy for investors only,” said Bonnie Brady, executive director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Assoc., a Montauk-based group that has opposed some of Read More »
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    Beached fishing boat removed in pieces from Port San Luis beach

    More than two months after a fishing boat washed ashore during a rough storm at Avila Beach in February, the vessel has been removed and Port Read More »

  • Keys fishery issues back on tap

    The ban and a lack of consistent fishing regulations among the major government fishery agencies that have jurisdiction in Keys waters has led to the formation Read More »

  • The CPRA has decided that some Louisiana Fishing Communities have to go! Are YOU ok with that??

    If you live in St. Bernard or Plaquemines please, please, please read all the way through. If the people of St. Bernard and Plaquemines don’t stand Read More »

  • Bering Sea Pollock Harvest Climbs, Cod Trawl Slower

    Groundfish vessels in the Bering Sea working the pollock A season have landed upwards of 190,898 metric tons out of their total allocation of 1.267 million Read More »

  • Fishing violation nets Wrangell father, son $100K fine

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  • Update on the F/V Golden Nugget

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  • Ottawa to temporarily suspend LIFO policy, shrimp fishery in Area 6 to be temporarily suspended

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  • GET ON THE DAMNED BUS!

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    Feds threaten shutdown of N.J. Fluke fishery as showdown escalates

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  • Our Earth Day Hero: Rodney Avila

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  • Probe sought into conditions of ‘stranded’ migrant fishers whose boat ran aground off Inis Mór

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    Meet Brendan Taylor, one of Foodstuffs’ ‘best’ commercial fishermen

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    Regulators meet next week to consider actions to save right whales which could drastically change lobstering

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  • NOAA Gets First Chief Scientist In More Than A Decade – Changes to federal personnel rules makes him a shoo in

    Currently the vice president for research at Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, Spinrad is a known face at NOAA and in Washington. He served as NOAA’s Read More »
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    Opponents say Block Island wind farm is causing problems across prime fishing grounds

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    Aussie made, Whangārei registered new scampi trawler in town

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    Crab season: ‘Fishermen just needed to go fishing’ while skinny crab adds stress

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