FISHERYNATION.COM

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

• Ocean Resource Privatization

• Articles Posted by Date

  November 2024

  M	T	W	T	F	S	S
  				1	2	3
  4	5	6	7	8	9	10
  11	12	13	14	15	16	17
  18	19	20	21	22	23	24
  25	26	27	28	29	30

•  

  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

• Recent Posts

  • 

    The cod delusion – A moratorium on cod fishing that was supposed to last two years has now lasted 30.

    Three decades on, the latest DFO science still puts Atlantic cod in the critical zone. “I hope politicians and bureaucrats in Ottawa have learned something, because Read More »

  • North Pacific Fishery Management Council Meeting February 5-11, 2014 – Seattle Wa.

    The agenda and supporting documents are available through npfmc.legistar.com, and through links on the Agenda. The meeting will be broadcast at npfmc.webex.com.  The agenda will be Read More »
  • 

    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 »

  • Ron McKinley wants TFW exemption for lobster processing plants

    P.E.I.’s fisheries minister is calling on Ottawa to ease up on temporary foreign worker restrictions in Atlantic Canada lobster processing plants. Ron McKinley raised the issue Read More »
  • 

    UPDATED: USCG identifies Maine fishermen who died after boat capsized

    The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has confirmed the identities of the two people that were aboard the Hayley Ann vessel off the coast of Maine Read More »
  • 

    The story of how a Black man pioneered the salmon canning industry in British Columbia in the 1870s

    Located on an island on the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada, is the Deas Island Regional Park What many do not know is that the Read More »

  • Wild fish advocates threaten to sue over Columbia hatcheries

    Funding of chinook, coho and steelhead fish hatchery programs throughout the Columbia River Basin is being challenged by wild fish advocates who contend that hatchery fish Read More »

  • Winchester Bay, Thar be sardines here

    “In our minds,” he said, “fish buyers, fishermen in the sardine industry … we get a quota and it keeps getting reduced. We don’t think NOAA Read More »

  • Not Guilty – Judge clears Whitby skipper of sinking boat in harbour

    A Whitby skipper accused of sinking a boat in the harbour has spoken of his collapse with tears of relief after the case was dropped. A Read More »

  • NH Bill looks to protect local fishermen

    While New Hampshire fishermen are struggling with federal regulations in the Gulf of Maine, state legislators are trying to give them a break with local regulations Read More »

  • How about some common sense Dr. Hutchings? New data from DFO suggests seals eat twice as many cod.

    INGONISH — No one is sure yet whether grey seals are continuing to threaten recovery of the cod stocks in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Read More »

  • Larry Avery Sees Opportunities For Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board

    Larry Avery is a man who sees opportunity where others may see only a meal. And he will create opportunities while bringing decades of business-building acumen Read More »

  • Fairfield County Lobstermen Praise Anti-Pesticide Bill

    DARIEN, Conn. — Fairfield County’s lobster industry has been decimated in the past 15 years, but a new bill signed into law by Gov. Dannel Malloy Read More »
  • 

    Strong Halibut Pricing Expected to Stay, American Flounder Market Overtaken by Alaska Plaice

    Read More »
  • 

    Kids in Elsipogtog sponsored to play hockey in honour of late fisherman, ‘Our Jumbo’

    Captain Craig (Jumbo) Sock was a hockey defenceman and lifelong hockey fan, his favourite team being the Chicago Blackhawks. So when fellow fisherman Joshua Noel Millea Read More »

  • Obama declared the first National Marine Monument in the Atlantic Ocean, and I helped!

    Roll the tape! Click on the image to watch. 06:28 Read More »
  • 

    Atlantic ChiCan exported U.S. lobster to China claiming it came from Canada

    A Chinese-owned lobster company in Nova Scotia has been fined $50,000 for illegally shipping American lobsters primarily to China and claiming it came from Canada. Atlantic Read More »
  • 

    PFMC plans transition for non-Indian commercial Area 2A halibut fishery; new season-setting process begins

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council is requesting public comment on structuring the West Coast Area 2A non-Indian directed commercial halibut fishery for the upcoming year. The Read More »
  • 

    Saving the Small Fishing Industry, One Permit at a Time

    Mr. Hopkins has the Island’s lone sea scalloping permit, a million-dollar commercial fisherman’s license the trust purchased and now leases to Mr. Hopkins. The trust works Read More »

  • Obama opens East Coast to oil search

    Opening the Eastern Seaboard to offshore oil exploration for the first time in decades, the Obama administration on Friday approved,,,”No one has been allowed to test Read More »

  • Glovertown Fish plant has work, but no workers

    In a province that has seen some of the highest unemployment rates in the country, it must be hard for employers to fathom there is a Read More »

  • U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell Urges SEC Investigation of Contradictory Statements by Pebble Mine Company

    Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) urged the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate contradictory information provided by Northern Dynasty Minerals to federal officials regarding the Read More »
  • 

    Watermen take to the streets to protest

    About 100 members of the Talbot Waterman’s Association lined up in front of the Easton Shore Land Conservancy to protest in the early morning hours of Read More »
  • 

    Whales are facing a deadly threat along West Coast: container ships

    One day last May, a container ship entered the San Francisco Bay with extra cargo. A 45-foot-long dead female fin whale was draped across the ship’s Read More »
  • 

    Shrimp season opens in Mississippi Sound

    The 2017 brown shrimp season opened 6 a.m. Wednesday and Mississippi Department of Marine Resources officials are hoping the season will be bountiful for recreational and Read More »

• Archives

  • November 2024 (67)
  • October 2024 (170)
  • September 2024 (180)
  • August 2024 (178)
  • July 2024 (171)
  • June 2024 (172)
  • May 2024 (191)
  • April 2024 (191)
  • March 2024 (209)
  • February 2024 (192)
  • January 2024 (211)
  • December 2023 (188)
  • November 2023 (202)
  • October 2023 (180)
  • September 2023 (101)
  • August 2023 (241)
  • July 2023 (237)
  • June 2023 (211)
  • May 2023 (235)
  • April 2023 (210)
  • March 2023 (215)
  • February 2023 (179)
  • January 2023 (187)
  • December 2022 (178)
  • November 2022 (187)
  • October 2022 (190)
  • September 2022 (177)
  • August 2022 (203)
  • July 2022 (186)
  • June 2022 (184)
  • May 2022 (186)
  • April 2022 (190)
  • March 2022 (219)
  • February 2022 (167)
  • January 2022 (192)
  • December 2021 (191)
  • November 2021 (182)
  • October 2021 (196)
  • September 2021 (197)
  • August 2021 (205)
  • July 2021 (221)
  • June 2021 (211)
  • May 2021 (221)
  • April 2021 (204)
  • March 2021 (202)
  • February 2021 (188)
  • January 2021 (195)
  • December 2020 (193)
  • November 2020 (181)
  • October 2020 (204)
  • September 2020 (195)
  • August 2020 (189)
  • July 2020 (205)
  • June 2020 (194)
  • May 2020 (225)
  • April 2020 (218)
  • March 2020 (216)
  • February 2020 (209)
  • January 2020 (233)
  • December 2019 (227)
  • November 2019 (240)
  • October 2019 (241)
  • September 2019 (241)
  • August 2019 (270)
  • July 2019 (288)
  • June 2019 (270)
  • May 2019 (263)
  • April 2019 (223)
  • March 2019 (210)
  • February 2019 (155)
  • January 2019 (117)
  • December 2018 (216)
  • November 2018 (169)
  • October 2018 (218)
  • September 2018 (247)
  • August 2018 (258)
  • July 2018 (259)
  • June 2018 (250)
  • May 2018 (251)
  • April 2018 (246)
  • March 2018 (266)
  • February 2018 (256)
  • January 2018 (278)
  • December 2017 (309)
  • November 2017 (281)
  • October 2017 (288)
  • September 2017 (275)
  • August 2017 (284)
  • July 2017 (287)
  • June 2017 (273)
  • May 2017 (276)
  • April 2017 (275)
  • March 2017 (300)
  • February 2017 (252)
  • January 2017 (288)
  • December 2016 (263)
  • November 2016 (268)
  • October 2016 (287)
  • September 2016 (284)
  • August 2016 (293)
  • July 2016 (286)
  • June 2016 (273)
  • May 2016 (246)
  • April 2016 (267)
  • March 2016 (260)
  • February 2016 (265)
  • January 2016 (269)
  • December 2015 (266)
  • November 2015 (281)
  • October 2015 (289)
  • September 2015 (286)
  • August 2015 (298)
  • July 2015 (294)
  • June 2015 (329)
  • May 2015 (316)
  • April 2015 (317)
  • March 2015 (324)
  • February 2015 (301)
  • January 2015 (332)
  • December 2014 (322)
  • November 2014 (330)
  • October 2014 (382)
  • September 2014 (340)
  • August 2014 (347)
  • July 2014 (376)
  • June 2014 (401)
  • May 2014 (344)
  • April 2014 (341)
  • March 2014 (375)
  • February 2014 (374)
  • January 2014 (360)
  • December 2013 (294)
  • November 2013 (372)
  • October 2013 (391)
  • September 2013 (461)
  • August 2013 (566)
  • July 2013 (526)
  • June 2013 (447)
  • May 2013 (475)
  • April 2013 (508)
  • March 2013 (459)
  • February 2013 (352)
  • January 2013 (265)
  • December 2012 (206)
  • November 2012 (168)
  • October 2012 (187)
  • September 2012 (126)
  • August 2012 (4)

• Tags

  Alaska Alaska Department of Fish and Game Athearn Marine Agency Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Boat of the Week BOEM Brexit British Columbia California canada Coast Guard commercial fisherman commercial fishermen commercial fishing Coronavirus Department of Fisheries and Oceans DFO Dungeness crab FFAW FISH-NL Gulf of Maine Gulf of St. Lawrence lobster Louisiana maine massachusetts National Marine Fisheries Service new-england-fishery-management-council Newfoundland and Labrador New Jersey NMFS NOAA North Atlantic right whale North Carolina. North Carolina Fisheries Association North Pacific Fishery Management Council Nova Scotia Obituary offshore wind offshore wind farm offshore wind farms Oregon Scotland United Kingdom weekly update

• Comments

  • Jesse Kvale on Alaska fisherman could get six months in prison after attempting to kill sperm whale
  • Joel Hovanesian on Alaska fisherman could get six months in prison after attempting to kill sperm whale
  • Brandon Gaines on Alaska fisherman could get six months in prison after attempting to kill sperm whale
  • james R Lovgren on Election Jitters, Industry Headwinds Undermine Biden’s Final Offshore Wind Auction
  • borehead - Moderator on Scalloper who was asked to take down anti-wind flag: ‘It’s wrong in so many ways’
  • Joel Hovanesian on Scalloper who was asked to take down anti-wind flag: ‘It’s wrong in so many ways’
  • John osmers on ‘I make nothing’: Local fishers weigh leaving the industry as inflation drives up costs
  • Dylan on Alaska’s “Imploding” Fishing Industry Has Shed 38,000 Jobs
  • Marty Connor on Did New Bedford police tell a fisherman to take down his ‘anti-windmill’ flag?
  • Judi Camarato on Second Minke Whale Found Dead Off Jersey Coast Days Since Offshore Wind Survey Ship Returned
  • Ian on Rare whale died of chronic entanglement in Maine fishing gear
  • John osmers on Rare whale died of chronic entanglement in Maine fishing gear
  • borehead - Moderator on Maine Unions Lead on the Green Energy Transition
  • Davis on Right whales and offshore wind: reflections on an uneasy coexistence
  • David zielinski on DOCUMENTARY ON THE WAY EXPOSING THE ILLEGAL SINKING OF THE 110’ MV WILD ALASKAN AND COAST GUARD MISCONDUCT
  • Gordon A Bell on Original Peter Pan Seafood investor wins auction for troubled company’s assets
  • james R Lovgren on James Binniker Named New Director of NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement
  • Joel Hovanesian on James Binniker Named New Director of NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement
  • Chris iversen on California’s trillion dollars floating wind fantasy
  • Mary Howard on IS THE G.A.O. SLOWWALKING ITS INVESTIGATION OF OFFSHORE WIND IMPACTS? By Jim Lovgren
  • Charles Bernier on Effort builds to save historic legacy of sardine carrier ‘Jacob Pike’
  • Brian Pontolilo on Mass. and Rhode Island pick 3 new wind projects, with less power than originally sought
  • Dennis OBrien on Biden – Harris Administration Approves Nation’s Tenth Offshore Wind Project
  • A on Biden – Harris Administration Approves Nation’s Tenth Offshore Wind Project
  • Russell Gary Smith on Offshore wind energy development: A David vs Goliath story
  • Your nightmare on New NOAA opinion: Wind farm pile driving causing “temporary disturbance” causing “temporary disturbance”
  • borehead - Moderator on Feds say SC boat owner may face prison for catching too many fish, then concealing it
  • Joel Hovanesian on Feds say SC boat owner may face prison for catching too many fish, then concealing it
  • Rio S on Maryland Governor Wes Moore Addresses Local Concerns for Offshore Wind Projects
  • Joel Hovanesian on Biden-Subsidized Offshore Wind Developer Reports Massive Losses in Latest Blow to Industry

• Facebook