Search underway off Cape Sable Island, N.S. for fisherman who went overboard

December 26, 2022 Canada

A search is underway in the waters off Nova Scotia for a missing fisherman who went overboard on Boxing Day morning. A Facebook post from the Atlantic Canada Fishermen’s Association said the fisherman on the vessel “Little Weasel” went overboard in the early morning hours off Cape Sable Island, and that local crews have been “searching tirelessly for hours in hopes of locating him safely.” >click to read<

Fisherman missing off Cape Sable Island – A search is underway for a fisherman who went overboard on Monday off Cape Sable Island. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax received a mayday at 8:21 a.m. on Boxing Day from a 39-foot fishing vessel six miles southeast of Cape Sable Island. >click to read< 15:51

39-foot fishing vessel, F/V Little Weasel, Fisherman missing off Cape Sable Island, Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, off Cape Sable Island, overboard fisherman, received a mayday, Search underway

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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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