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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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  • Blue Crabs In The James River Found To Have High Levels Of Potentially Liver-Damaging Toxin

    Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have found high levels of a potentially liver-damaging toxin in blue crabs in the James River. The high toxin levels turned up Read More »

  • New Ship Assembly Hall To Be Dedicated

    Ketchikan, Alaska –  Alaska Ship & Drydock (ASD) in cooperation with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) will host a ceremony March 26 to dedicate Read More »

  • Three Sites Under Study (Siege) As Marine Sanctuaries in Waters Off Vineyard

    An Island-based group that includes fishermen ( a very loose term), a documentary filmmaker and a world-renowned oceanographer are leading an unprecedented effort to create three Read More »

  • A must read blog (along with Fishosophy, of course!) Recommended by Nils Stolpe

    The blogger is Jonathan Gonzalez, a graphic designer with a solid and obvious commitment to ocean conservation. What separates him from the crowd, and what brought Read More »
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    Lucky winner gets 3-acre Wellfleet shellfish grant in ‘unprecedented’ lottery

    For the first time in recent memory, a shellfish grant was returned to the town and leased to a new shellfish farmer via lottery on June Read More »

  • Cocaine sharks: The hidden drug problem in the Gulf of Maine and oceans

    An article on the BBC and subsequently picked up by the New York Times just reinforced what I have been teaching for a long time. The article reports on Read More »

  • Turtle Excluder Devices: Public meeting on shrimping regulation gets little feedback

    A new federal regulation on Coast shrimpers may add more stress on an already stressed industry. Wednesday’s meeting discussed expanding the use of Turtle Excluder Devices Read More »

  • Fink forecasts end of seal industry

    Sheryl Fink is forecasting the demise of the seal industry, but how that happens should be determined by Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.  “It’s not for a group Read More »

  • The Sea Level Scam

    Measuring sea level is more complicated than pounding a stake into a beach. Sea level and the rate of rise or fall are subject to daily Read More »
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    Coronavirus: International turmoil keeps the lobster at home

    Commercial fishing is a notoriously condition-dependent occupation. As of early February, however, in addition to the changeable sea and the here-today, gone-tomorrow nature of the work—as Read More »
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    Tribes Release 1st Salmon Into Upper Columbia Since Dam Construction

    Cheers erupted from the crowd as the first salmon was released since 1955 into the Columbia River above Chief Joseph Dam. It was the first of Read More »
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    Gulf of Mexico fish farms move another step closer to reality

    The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, which advises the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service on fish and fishing in the Gulf, Read More »

  • 55-year-old fisherman Coast Guard medevaced Monday afternoon, 8 miles offshore of Port Aransas

    CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Coast Guard rescue boat crew medevaced a 55-year-old fisherman suffering from diabetic symptoms Monday afternoon, 8 miles offshore of Port Aransas. Read More »
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    Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 44ft. Blue Water Marine Lobster,Longliner, 230HP, 6 Cylinder Daewoo

    Specifications, information and 9 photo’s  click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 14:26 Read More »

  • Long Island, NY – LaValle Bill to Help Commercial Fishermen Unanimously Passes Senate (fuel saver!)

    Sen. Ken LaValle said his bill  (S.1762) allows fishermen, for example, to catch three times the daily catch limit on Monday and two times the limit Read More »
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    New Bedford: NOAA lifts groundfish ban – Approval in place immediately

    Nearly eight months to the day after NOAA closed groundfishing for Carlos Rafael vessels, the agency lifted the ban on Thurday that had put 80 fishermen Read More »

  • Fish like a girl: This 23-year-old lobsterwoman from Maine is her own boss

    “When I was younger, I felt questioned by others, like whether I could do this,” Samuels said. “It makes you start to question yourself. I was Read More »

  • Vineyard Power vying for offshore wind farm

    This June, the state will solicit bids seeking offshore wind farms to produce 400 megawatts of electricity. It’s the first of four phases of what state Read More »
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    Part 1: Port Canaveral – Culmination of A Long Awaited Dream

    The original charter in 1939 established a seven-member board of port commissioners but it was not until 1941 that the Port Authority was authorized to advertise Read More »

  • F/V Bristol Leader catches fire in Seattle

    Firefighters were called to Pier 91 in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood for a fire on a fishing boat. Crews responded shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday at 2001 West Read More »

  • Gang Green expects the NMFS to fix Global Warming to save the coral, and they agree to it!!

    September 13 – In a settlement filed in federal court today, the National Marine Fisheries Service committed to developing a recovery plan for elkhorn and staghorn  corals Read More »
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    Fisheries Survival Fund: Change Offshore Wind Farm Areas to Protect Scallops

    The Fisheries Survival Fund , is requesting that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which is responsible for leasing areas for offshore development, incrementally change its lease Read More »

  • US Waives Jones Act to Secure Fuel for Hurricane Responders

    The U.S. government on Friday said it was temporarily waiving a law that limits the availability of cargoes on the U.S. coasts, a step that will Read More »

  • Signs of hope in fisheries management October 07, 2012 2:00 AM

    When long-time Portsmouth Herald editor Ray Brighton wrote his definitive two-volume history in honor of Portsmouth’s 350th anniversary, he called it “They Came to Fish.” Fishing Read More »
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    Anti-Wind Farm Group Sues R.I. Coastal Agency Over Revolution Wind Approval

    Green Oceans, the Rhode Island citizens group that fiercely opposes offshore wind farms, is in the midst of a civil lawsuit it has filed against the Read More »

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