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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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U.S. Marshals seize FV Westward, moored in Boothbay Harbor for the last two years
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Hawaii commercial longline fishermen consider strike
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Your Seafreeze Ltd. PREFERRED PRICE LIST for SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 has arrived!
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Commercial Dungeness crab season scheduled to start on Nov. 15
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Commercial fishing groups suing over sea turtles – Video report
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States Schedule Hearings on Atlantic Menhaden Draft Amendment 2 – The dates, times, locations, and analysis provided by savingseafood.org
The Draft Amendment presents a suite of options to manage and monitor the stock in both the short and long-term. These include options to end overfishing; Read More » -
Almost 20 years ago, a big bust! – Cape Cod brothers, scallopers face possible $5.8 million fines
In what officials say are the largest fisheries sanctions ever sought in the Northeast two Cape Cod brothers and their fleet of scallopers out of Fall Read More » -
Louisiana: Launch of new shrimp boat a testament of faith
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Lobsterman who died in apparent drowning remembered as fixture on the Plymouth waterfront
Michael Furlong was a fixture on Town Pier, a longstanding member of the harbor community who was always on the lookout to help others. “He was Read More » -
Fire crews fight Port Stanley boat fire that caused $750,000 in damage, man arrested
Police and firefighters responded to the town’s harbour shortly before midnight Saturday after receiving reports a commercial fishing vessel was on fire, Const. Troy Carlson, a Read More » -
Ian MacPherson navigates waters of lobster industry
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Video: Coast Guard medevacs crewman from F/V Stella near Kodiak, Alaska
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak hoists a 35-year-old hypothermic crewman from the deck of the 58-foot Kodiak-based fishing vessel Stella Read More » -
Shark fins seized from shrimp boat off Key West
Florida wildlife officers made a grisly discovery aboard a Key West shrimp boat this week: dozens of pairs of dismembered shark fins. The boat was discovered Read More » -
State of Alaska plans distribution of 2016 pink salmon season disaster relief funds
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Large vessel owners accuse FFAW of ‘double standard’ – Fishing industry divided on how to handle northern shrimp
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Now this is something! SPECIAL REPORT, PART 1: The Deadliness Below – Weapons of mass destruction thrown into the sea years ago present danger now
In the summer of 2004, a clam-dredging operation off New Jersey pulled up an old artillery shell. The long-submerged World War I -era explosive was filled with Read More » -
Watermen’s Appreciation Day – A day on the bay of the Eastern Shore
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Nova Scotia Fish Packers Association says the pre – election loan to Blue Wave Seafoods is questionable
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THEN and NOW – Blessing of the Fleet – Gloucester, Mass.
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Coast Guard issues temporary safety zone near Morro Bay Harbor Entrance
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Coast Guard searches for missing Fishermen from Capsized Fishing Vessel 1 mile northeast of Tybee Island
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Commercial prawn season opens in Powell River B.C.
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Fishing boat to be raised from Loch Fyne to give families ‘closure’
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Diver who died in Portland Harbor apparently was hit by spinning propeller
The diver who died in Portland Harbor this week suffered injuries consistent with being hit by a spinning propeller, authorities said. Dennis McGrath, 56, of Scarborough Read More »
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