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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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Maine’s lobster industry and its supporters are fighting back after Seafood Watch placed lobster on a list
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F/V Nicola Faith: Body found off Wirral coastline confirmed as missing fisherman Ross Ballantine
A body found off the Wirral coastline on Friday, March 12, is that of Ross Ballantine, police have confirmed. The 39-year-old was reported missing, along with Read More » -
Peter Apo: Obama Should Say No To Expanded Marine Monument
President Obama is considering a request to more than quadruple the size of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to 580,000 square Read More » -
Maine’s scallop industry is offering fishermen new opportunities at sea
Marsden Brewer is a fourth-generation fisherman who still fishes for lobster. However, reduced stocks and an increase in commercial fishing regulations have led to a decrease Read More » -
Twin Disc Celebrates 100 Years
Marine power transmission and propulsion technology company Twin Disc is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a wide range of local, national and international events that kicked Read More » -
‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help you’
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Sixty-Something: Participating In This Year’s Montauk Blessing Of The Fleet
Every late spring, for the last sixty years, there has been a pure Montauk tradition called the Blessing of the Fleet. It is both a memorial Read More » -
Coast Guard conducts medevac near Cold Bay, Alaska
A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew medevaced a mariner experiencing abdominal complications from the fishing vessel U.S. Intrepid 30 miles south of Read More » -
It’s time for 1906 Antiquities Act to be drastically reformed or scrapped altogether.
Clearly, the intent of creating these monuments has nothing to do with historical or cultural preservation. As Maine Gov. Paul LePage rightly noted, the designations would Read More » -
Maine DMR to hold off on new lobster measures
After holding more than a dozen meetings along the Maine coast in January, state fishery officials have decided not to pursue any new management measures for Read More » -
Sea life relocating fast in response to climate change – Extinctions possible as predators move into new areas
Many fish and plankton are relocating towards the North and South poles at an astonishing rate of hundreds of kilometres per decade in response to climate Read More » -
Proud Nova Scotian fishing trawler abandoned amid mysterious claims
It’s embarrassing for an old Nova Scotian fishing ship: tied up, gutted, disappeared in the night, denied port and now anchorless, run aground and abandoned in Read More » -
Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Price Sheet for May 2019 Has Arrived!
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A family of crabbers – Tradition provides a through line for generations
With his orange gloved hands, my dad pops the shell off the crab, then twists the crab in half and pulls the guts off, and then Read More » -
Small scale fishers get rock lobster quota lifeline
Fishing communities have hailed a decision for the West Coast Rock Lobster quota to be increased from 600 tons to 700 tons for the 2021/22 season. Read More » -
Gloucester celebrates its finest kind
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DFO study results on crab stocks bad news for harvesters, Bonavista fisherman comments. Then, theres the Cod.
Fisherman Reg Butler of Bonavista wonders when the cuts will end for the snow crab fishery. After Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) scientists revealed the Read More » -
Tignish lobsterman Dryden Buote – Let us go fishing
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California crabber accuses processor of price fixing
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Opinion: Worst times, or just very, very bad? Industry splits hairs over the awful condition of cod
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American shad coming back in Potomac River
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The fish farm industry is taking its fight for leniency from fisheries laws to the Canadian Senate.
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Get your motor running: Lobster boat racing season is here!
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