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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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    Resistance to Offshore Wind Is Growing on US Coasts

    A growing chorus of interest groups is calling for a pause in offshore wind activities to allow further assessment of the sector’s impacts on the marine Read More »

  • A Big Ruckus Over a Little Clam Boat – Commercial Clamming Stirs Short Beach Waters

    As concerned neighbors organize to prevent commercial clam digging in sleepy Short Beach cove, a new $1.6 million clamming boat, the Cultivator, continues to stir up Read More »
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    Coronavirus: ‘Extremely difficult’ for fishing industry to maintain health protocols if season proceeds: union

    “Truth be told, it’s going to be extremely difficult,” says Martin Mallet, the executive director of the Maritime Fishermen’s Union. “The boats are not designed to Read More »

  • Relief funds for last summer’s King salmon fisheries disasters on the Kuskokwim and Yukon Rivers has taken one step closer to reaching fishermen in the region.

    The bill allocates $150 million for fisheries disasters in Alaska, as well as in New England and Mississippi. Senator Lisa Murkowski says it is uncertain how the Read More »
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    Crews refloat boat that capsized near Crescent Harbor on Saturday

    A fishing vessel that overturned just outside of a Sitka harbor this weekend was refloated early Monday morning. Around 1 p.m. on Saturday, the Coast Guard Read More »

  • RCMP are seeking the public’s help in solving a canned clam caper in Le Goulet, N.B. (at least they left the canned seal meat behind) whew!

    Police say 360 cans of Sea Watch brand clams were stolen from a warehouse on Basile-Roussel Road. more@cbcnews! 16:14 Read More »

  • Press Release: Minister LeBlanc Accepts Key Recommendation of Advisory Panel on LIFO

    Today, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, issued the following statement: “After a thorough review of the Ministerial Read More »

  • High Liner to downsize New Bedford Plant, 200 jobs hit

    (TSX:HLF) is ceasing some of its operations at an underused seafood plant in New Bedford, Mass., in a move that affects about 200 jobs. The plant’s Read More »
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    Senate Approves Bill Exempting Commercial Fishermen from State Unemployment Tax

    “Currently, New Jersey’s commercial fishermen are on the hook for unemployment taxes, but they are not paid hourly wages, and they have never been able to Read More »
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    Tornados Make Bering Sea Debut

    Seattle trawler Storm Petrel has finished its first trips using a pair of Tornado pelagic trawl doors from Vónin, and skipper Acácio DoMar has been impressed Read More »
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    Morro Bay’s offshore wind farm is the new bullet train to nowhere

    News outlets breathlessly reported the great news that California and the feds will build a 399 square mile floating wind farm to generate electricity. The farm Read More »
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    Report: Imported seafood often contains dangerous drugs

    In 2015, about 90 percent of seafood consumed in the U.S. was imported from overseas, and about half of that comes from fish farms, according to Read More »
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    Prince William Sound Pink salmon fishery back in business

    Pink salmon commercial harvests are still below forecasts, but even with no prospect of rain predicted so far until Aug. 22, the catch in Prince William Read More »
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    Could this, like spot prawns, be our next local seafood success? The hake catch is six times the size for wild salmon.

    B.C.’s hake, also known as Pacific whiting or Merluccius productus, is a transboundary species that crosses Canadian and American waters. Both countries share management of the short-lived, Read More »

  • Suppose there was an important fishery that was the basis of a large part of the coastal economy as well as the cultural cement that held coastal communities together. – Towards rationalit​y in fisheries management​

    Adding their interpretation to this, the people at NOAA/NMFS, with the enthusiastic support of the various and sundry anti-fishing activists who pull way too many of the strings in Read More »
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    Video Update: 2 fisherman rescued 52 miles off the coast of Coos Bay

    The Coast Guard rescued two fisherman from a fishing vessel that was sinking 52 miles off the coast of Coos Bay Saturday morning. The two men Read More »

  • The North Pacific Fishery Management Council Meeting in Seattle, WA January 30 thru February 6, 2017

    The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will begin their meeting week on Monday, January 30, and continue through Monday February 6, 2017 at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Read More »

  • EPA warns Ghana to protect whales

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has raised red flag over the increasing deaths of whales along the coast, saying Ghana risks oil sanctions if adequate measures Read More »
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    Marshfield lobsterman proud to add new boat to ‘hundreds of years of commercial fishing’

    What’s 45 feet long, 17 feet wide and required a State Police detail to get to its Brant Rock home? The answer is Andy Glynn’s new Read More »

  • Groundfish: Council Signs off on Amendment 25; Prepares for December Final Action on Framework 69 Under Cod Phase 1

    The New England Fishery Management Council took final action on Amendment 25 to the Northeast Multispecies (Groundfish) Fishery Management Plan (FMP) when it met September 24-26, Read More »

  • WATCH: Ted Danson Fights for Marine Life with Oceana

    Ted Danson is the latest male activist to be welcomed to GQ’s The Gentlemen’s Fund, an initiatives that “encourages men to become agents of change by Read More »

  • Why Southeast Alaska Seiners Association chooses Parnell for governor

    Three items point to the reason behind this unanimous endorsement by the Southeast Alaska Seiners Board of Directors, who hail from Petersburg, Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan, Read More »

  • UPDATE 2 AND FINAL: F/V Miss Destinee – Coast Guard suspends search for 2 missing in Marmot Bay, Alaska

    The Coast Guard suspended the search late Friday night for a man and woman reported missing from the fishing vessel Miss Destinee that capsized in Marmot Bay, Thursday morning.,,, “We and Read More »
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    Real Maine lobster rolls from a real Maine fisherman

    Sadie Samuels, a Belfast native, has been a lobsterman since she was 7 years old on her father’s boat and says the best lobster rolls she Read More »

  • Computer Model Predictions: Major Reductions in Seafloor Marine Life from Climate Change by 2100

    An international team of scientists predict seafloor dwelling marine life will decline by up to 38 per cent in the North Atlantic and over five per Read More »

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