State official eyes impact of big boats inshore GDT

October 12, 2012 New England

David Pierce said his concern is that, in the unregulated commodity trading system now in its third year, the big boats have the ability to acquire and accumulate an unlimited quantity of catch shares in Gulf of Maine Cod, and can monopolize landings in a stock whose vitality was found last year to be dramatically weaker than believed in an earlier, 2008 benchmark assessment. http://www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x1133184143/State-official-eyes-impact-of-big-boats-inshore

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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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Ocean Resource Privatization

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

Press Release: Mid-Atlantic Council Completes 2014-2018 Strategic Plan

Kodiak fishermen’s likes/dislikes about fishing – This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini

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Study: Marine heat waves do not affect fish populations

Lobsterman who died in apparent drowning remembered as fixture on the Plymouth waterfront

Your View: UMD administration needs to explain changes at SMAST – southcoasttoday.com

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Young Fishermen Are Struggling to Stay Afloat

Federal Fisheries Frustration

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Nova Scotia Fishing industry concerned about plans for undersea coal mine

More fluke, less sea bass, but no difference for frustrated CT commercial fisherman under 2018 quotas

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New elver licensee Awesus Mitchell goes for the gold as season opens – video

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Car was engulfed in flames after violent crash. Watch fishermen pull out the driver.

Final Rule Available for Amendment 14 to Squid, Mackerel, Butterfish Fishery Management Plan

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