North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for April 17/2023

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Northeast Commercial Fishing Cost Survey – Last month NOAA Fisheries sent out letters and emails to federally permitted commercial fishing vessel owners in the Northeast Greater Atlantic region requesting them to participate in the Commercial Fishing Business Cost Survey for 2022. This survey is only done every few years and the information gathered plays an important role in all aspects of fisheries management. >click to read the update< 12:47

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

Recent Posts

A day at sea – Cod, skate, discards and an observer

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Some Inconvenient Truths about California Squid Marketing: C W P A responds to Paul Greenberg’s “The long journey of local seafood to your plate”,

It’s Thanksgiving in St.Johns for these Sailors, a Community Outpouring! – Ship has arrived in heaven

P.E.I. fishing industry wants more temporary foreign workers to fill vacant processing jobs

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Government Helps Fund Advanced Halibut Tagging

DFO is defending its decision to grant a temporary license for Icelandic factory freezer trawler to catch and process redfish.

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Fishermen Protest: Aeolus installation vessel surrounded by 70 fishing boats Saint-Brieuc Offshore Wind Farm

R.I., feds spending $5.2 million to rebuild 3 sagging piers at Port of Galilee

Theresa May warned over handing UK fishing waters to Brussels

Can we really break the China habit?

“No one knew about this COVID thing,” says CEO that kept sick fishermen at sea

Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 82′ Raised Foc’sle Steel Stern Trawler with Federal, State Permits

2 dead after fishing boat capsizes in Nova Scotia

Construction Worker/Commercial Fisherman David Earl Finifrock Jr. of Washington State, has passed away

Cody Umentum of Denmark went from a Mexican beach to the F/V Wizard

A Lecture by Robert Finch – Newfoundland’s Vanished Fishery Sounds a Cautionary Note

6 people missing, homes destroyed in southeast Alaska landslide – Coast Guard Responding

Gloucester: Blessing of Fleet asks for good weather, a good catch and a safe return

These Politicians that tell you they are they are concerned about the Groundfishery are on a different page!

Video: Four adults, two infants, and three dogs rescued from three grounded shrimp boats near Rollover Pass in Gilchrist, Texas

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