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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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  • Democrat Lawmakers & Conservation Groups Call for Phase Out of California Drift Gillnets

    Sacramento (Dec. 22, 2014) – With the full support of Turtle Island Restoration Network, OCEANA and other marine conservations organizations, California Assemblymember Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) Read More »
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    Decline in Chesapeake crab population sparks hunt for answers

    Commercial crabbers in Maryland and Virginia aren’t catching their limits, and the harvest in the first few months of the season was so meager that some Read More »
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    NOAA Scientists Admit Finding In Recent Right Whale Report Just A Hypothesis

    Federal fishery regulators are taking back their claim that newer lobster fishing gear is harmful to North Atlantic right whales.,, They found a 2015 rule requiring less Read More »

  • Ocean Industrializing Politicians, read this. Burning Cash: The Staggering Cost of Offshore Wind Power.

    The true cost of wind power is staggering, the cost of offshore wind power is astronomical: the latter is more than six times the cost of Read More »

  • Bumper Tasmanian scallop season expected

    The Tasmanian scallop season has kicked off with expectations that up to 5000 tonnes could be netted out of the Bass Strait Central Zone fishery this Read More »

  • See which 8 NJ towns filed new lawsuits to stop offshore wind developer

    Eight Jersey Shore municipalities petitioned the court this week in a new attempt to stop offshore wind developers from moving forward with power projects along the Read More »
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    Durango anglers set to head to Alaska for salmon run

    The Copper River season takes off mid-May with the king salmon run.,,,  A month later, further southeast, Eric Macias and his crew will board the 58-foot Read More »

  • Mainer Mary Beth Nickell-Tooley’s vote disallowed on NEFMC, What about John Pappalardo’s?

    Mary Beth Nickell-Tooley, an at-large member from Maine since 2008, was informed Wednesday by NOAA Attorney Adviser Mitch MacDonald she “may not vote during the Council’s Read More »
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    Massachusetts Fishermen’s Partnership says wind farm lacks scientific support

    The Massachusetts Fishermen’s Partnership claims that the 84-turbine offshore wind project soon to be developed by Vineyard Wind lacks scientific backing and will inevitably harm the Read More »

  • F/V Argos Georgia, unsuccessful search for missing mariners; nine bodies on Tuesday to be flown to UK for Autopsies

    As part of the ongoing recovery effort for those crew members still missing from the fishing vessel Argos Georgia, over the weekend MV Pharos SG and Read More »
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    Dungeness crab at $5.99/lb. Nice! But crab fishers get $2/lb. Tough deal.

    Remember a year ago, and the $18.99 up to $24.50 a pound prices? When you hear about a “market correction,” here it is in a dramatic Read More »

  • “Just N Time”! Coast Guard rescues Addison lobsterman off Jonesport after boat began to flood

    The man, whose name was not released, was attempting to bring the “Just N Time” to Sawyer Cove to secure it during the storm, when the Read More »

  • Christian Brun, Maritime Fishermen’s Union official one of 2 men killed in Miramichi crash

    The director general of the Maritime Fishermen’s Union was one of two men killed in a head-on collision Monday morning on Route 11 in Lower Newcastle, Read More »

  • David L. Lunt of Frenchboro, Maine, has passed away

    David L. Lunt, a lobsterman, entrepreneur, patriarch, optimist, and lover of the open road who emerged from humble beginnings to become an iconic coastal figure and Read More »
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    The impossible journey of the juvenile coho

    As a Ph.D. student with the University of Washington’s Alaska Salmon Program, Jonny Armstrong — now assistant professor at Oregon State University’s Fish and Wildlife Department Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 70″ Steel Stern Dragger with Longfin squid – Tier 1 Permit

    To review specifications, information, and 10 photos’, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here<  11:12 Read More »

  • Sale of shell-on lobster claws bound for Mass Senate floor

    Massachusetts lobstermen could get a leg-up if a Senate bill set for consideration next Thursday becomes law. Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, a Gloucester Republican who Read More »
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    Blessing of the Fleet: Boat blessings return to Terrebonne and Lafourche

    After Dulac was ravaged by Hurricane Ida, this year’s shrimp boat blessing holds a special place for the Rev. Antonio Speedy of Holy Family Catholic Church. “Hurricane Read More »

  • CCA Maryland: Don’t increase harvest of striped bass

    “As you are undoubtedly aware, the 2013 striped bass stock assessment projects declines in the spawning stock biomass,” the letter read. “CCA Maryland is intensely concerned Read More »

  • Atlantic cod could be at risk from noise created by wind farms and other off-shore developments

    A study carried out by the University’s world-leading Institute of Aquaculture found that Atlantic cod exposed to noise levels common in land-based aquaculture facilities exhibited significantly Read More »

  • NEWPORT: Oregon’s congressional delegation says copter closure delayed 15 days – Its a Start!

     Several members of Oregon’s congressional delegation say the Coast Guard has agreed to keep a rescue helicopter at Newport until Dec. 15. The agency’s Newport air Read More »
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    Marine Piping: It’s Not Rocket Science

    The maritime industry, over time, has been unusually resistant to change in many aspects of how it operates. Arguably, the ‘biggest’ advances on the water spanning Read More »

  • Salmon return to San Jose, thrilling long-time ‘river watchdog’ Roger Castillo

    SAN JOSE — Amid the din and concrete of downtown San Jose, one man rejoiced over the autumnal return of a species as wild and old as Read More »

  • Goldfish – A lucrative Great Lakes commercial catch

    Whenever Dave DeLong brings in one of his Maumee Bay seine nets, there’s almost always one or two distinctive bright orange fish swimming around the writhing Read More »

  • Guest View: Tide begins turning fishermen’s way By Elizabeth Warren

    For the past two years, I have made many visits to Massachusetts fishing communities in New Bedford, Gloucester and the South Shore to hear about the Read More »

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