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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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    Connecticut fishermen catch a massive 400-pound Stingray

    I don’t know about you, but in my world, stingrays aren’t 400 pounds. In the real world so to speak, it’s just as uncommon for your Read More »
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    Changes in Lobster Land

    “Thick as pudding out here,” says Richard Waldron, 77, taking his glasses off and tucking them in the folds of a red plaid shirt sitting on Read More »

  • Congress votes to keep USCG chopper in Newport Oregon

    WASHINGTON — Congress has voted to keep the U.S. Coast Guard air facility at Newport open through 2015, Senator Ron Wyden’s office confirmed Wednesday. The Coast Read More »

  • Lifelong Commercial Fisherman Carlton Maxwell Muse, Sr. of Pamlico, North Carolina has passed away

    Carlton Maxwell Muse Sr. passed peacefully at 92 years old in his home on Sunday, November 12, 2023, while watching the sunrise over Broad Creek. According Read More »

  • Lobster Glut – Cape Breton plants struggle to handle extra lobster

    Record landings along parts of the Cape Breton coast have resulted in a backlog of lobster. As a result, large buyers in Area 26B, from Pleasant Read More »

  • Commericial restrictions lifted to match new federal rules – Swordfish now can be caught in North Florida waters

    Conforming to less-restrictive federal rules that went into effect in August, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission decided Thursday that commercial fishermen can catch and Read More »

  • The $100 Million U.S. Government Fish Farm Nobody Wants

    If someone offered you a chance to invest millions of dollars in a business nobody wants, would you take it? If you’re the U.S. government, the answer is a resounding yes. Since Read More »

  • Coast Guard, good Samaritans rescue 4 people after fishing vessel capsized near Kodiak

    Coast Guard Sector Anchorage watchstanders received a report over VHF channel 16 at approximately 4:31p.m. from the crew of F/V Alaska Rose, a 46-foot fishing vessel, Read More »

  • East Hampton Fisheries Committee Pushes For Economic Study Of Local Fishing Industry

    Cornell Cooperative Extension and the East Hampton Fisheries Committee are looking for money to study how much the fishing industry contributes to the local economy. The Read More »

  • COUNTERPOINT: Who’ll police fish farms? – Kathaleen Milan, Sable River

    In Lunenburg on Monday, Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Keith Colwell announced that aquaculture regulations have gone from two pages to 60. While much has been added, Read More »
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    Troubled waters: the forces behind the death of the Tees

    The Tees Estuary is dying. Its demise the result of widespread contamination on the one hand, and a wilful mishandling of information on the other. There Read More »

  • Douglas Ward Wickens fell off a fishdragger. If Ward had been wearing a PFD…

    Douglas Ward Wickens fell off a fishdragger, the Silver Angel, on May 3, 2011, about nine kilometers south of Cape Sable Island. His captain, the only other Read More »

  • Fire at Sand Point Trident plant halts operations, leaves locals without fuel

    Sand Point is without access to fuel after a fire broke out at the local Trident Seafoods plant. The fire started early Thursday morning, pausing the Read More »
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    After years of protest, New Waterford man wins fishing quota case

    New Waterford fisherman Paul Fraser has finally had his day in court and won. In a written decision released this week, Supreme Court Justice John Bodurtha Read More »

  • Fishing industry roadshow to be held in Milford Haven

    Organised by Seafish, the public body that supports the UK seafood industry, the roadshows are free to attend and will offer fishers the chance to discuss Read More »

  • Written Testimony by Eric Schwaab, Assistant Administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service on Developments and Opportunities in U.S….

    Written Testimony by Eric Schwaab, Assistant Administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service on Developments and Opportunities in U.S. Fisheries Management WASHINGTON, March 19 — The Read More »

  • Judge allows additional briefs in federal salmon management suit

    United Cook Inlet Drift Association and Cook Inlet Fisherman’s Fund, who brought the lawsuit forward in February 2013, want federal oversight of the State’s salmon management Read More »

  • Feds shut down 100-year-old oyster company, Stooge Salizar caught with smoking gun. Video of the year! Must see.

    Sec. of the Interior Ken Salazar decided todaythe farm’s lease will not be renewed, despite some support for it from from Sen. Dianne Feinstein and serious Read More »

  • Owners of Kodiak’s Wild Alaskan floating strip club charged with improper disposal of human waste

    Kimberly Christina Reidel-Byler, 46, and Darren K. Byler, 54, both of Kodiak, face charges that they piped waste from bathrooms on the Wild Alaskan directly into Read More »
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    St. Paul government declares emergency in attempt to get ahead of looming crab crash

    The Pribilof Island of St. Paul runs on snow crab — also known as opilio crab. The community’s Trident Seafoods is one of the largest crab Read More »

  • Salmon fishing returns to Fukushima after 5-year absence

    Traditional salmon “combination net fishing” returned to the Kidogawa river here for the first time in five years as fishermen hauled in about 120 of the Read More »

  • U.S. Coast Guard performs medevac recuse off coast of Nantucket for injured crew member

    The U.S. Coast Guard performed a medevac recuse off the coast of Nantucket for an injured crew member on Thursday.  According to the Coast Guard, the Read More »

  • Alitak District setnetters scrambling after OBI dismantles area’s salmon market months before summer season starts

    OBI Seafoods announced earlier this month [March 8] that it would not be buying salmon from the setnet fleet in Kodiak’s Alitak District. The decision does Read More »
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    No criminality found in fatal fishing boat sinking

    A criminal investigation into the sinking of a fishing boat in which two men died has been dropped, prosecutors have said. The Nancy Glen went down Read More »

  • Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell signs oyster replenishment bill

    NEWPORT NEWS — The Virginia Marine Resources Commission is preparing to embark on the largest state-funded oyster replenishment initiative in state history, thanks to a record Read More »

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