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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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    Coronavirus: “These are not normal times” Situation changing ‘by the hour’ as seafood industry reels

    New Brunswick’s seafood industry is reeling as the coronavirus fallout spreads in traditional markets around the world. “Things are changing by the hour,” said Melanie Sonnenberg Read More »

  • Scallop council rejects state agency’s recommendation, urges longer season

    BREWER, Maine — A divided state scallop advisory council ignored the recommendations of  with the Maine Department of Marine Resources and proposed the same number of Read More »

  • Coast Guard crew medevacs man near Boothbay Harbor, ME

    The Coast Guard medically evacuated a 49-year-old male Monday five miles southeast of Boothbay Harbor, Maine.  At approximately 11:30 a.m., watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Northern Read More »

  • Shell Canada proposing major offshore N.S. exploration of 7 oil wells beginning in 2015

    Environmentalists worry about the risk of a disaster that could threaten marine life such as whales, swordfish and tuna. “The probability is low, but as we Read More »

  • Canfisco cannery closing operations in Prince Rupert

    In another blow to fisheries on B.C.’s north coast, Canfisco says it will cease canning operations in Prince Rupert. More than 500 jobs could be lost Read More »

  • On this Day in 1977: 200-mile fishing zone takes effect

    On this day in 1977, a 200-mile territorial fishing zone took effect, with the waters off Cape Cod being one of the two areas where the Read More »

  • Thailand slams US trafficking report

    The Foreign Affairs Ministry has slammed the United States for downgrading Thailand in its human trafficking report and urged it to reconsider the decision.  The US Read More »
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    Alaska’s biggest ever commercial seaweed harvest is happening right now

    The biggest commercial seaweed harvest in Alaska history is unfolding this week in waters off Kodiak, one slick blade of sugar kelp at a time. By Read More »

  • Reassessed: More than half a million gallons of oil spilled in Gulf near Lousisiana

    The U.S. Coast Guard has reassessed an oil spill that happened Oct. 13 (click here) near Venice Louisiana. While initial reports were thought to be at Read More »

  • Green Cannibalism. Will they consume each other? Will it spread? Environmentalists’ Complaint Exposes Rift Between ‘Green’ Certification Groups

    WASHINGTON — The legal watchdogs at the Federal Trade Commission have been trying to police the proliferating — and often false — claims in recent years Read More »
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    Pawning off one farmer as representing all is a cheap trick in the dam-removal campaign

    Advocates for tearing down the Snake River dams made a scheming move last week in Olympia, but they didn’t fool Eastern Washington lawmakers. If anything, their Read More »

  • Salmon Sperm Could Help Us Recycle Rare Earth Elements

    It’s time to scrape that salmon semen off your plate, because it’s got a much better use than tickling your taste buds (yes, fish sperm is Read More »

  • Looming state gov’t shutdown threatens AK’s $500M salmon industry

    Alaska’s half-billion-dollar salmon season is in jeopardy if lawmakers don’t pass a state budget by the end of June. Without one, state government shuts down July Read More »

  • NOAA scientists admit in private that they can’t name any place affected by ocean acidification

    There’s the truth, then there’s the whole truth. From a climate expert at NOAA, the study of ocean acidification is so young “they don’t have any Read More »
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    Peterhead fisherman who died after trawler Njord capsizes has been identified

    Ronald McKinnon, originally from Peterhead, was one of three crew members airlifted to Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen after inhaling fumes. Five more of the crew Read More »
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    Lobster shell disease nudges up slightly off of Maine

    A disease that disfigures lobsters has ticked up slightly in Maine in the last couple of years, but authorities and scientists say it’s not time to Read More »

  • Japan-based bank to back Cape Wind

    Cape Wind is poised to take another step in securing the financial underpinnings for its proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm. The company will tap the Bank Read More »
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    Salmon and steelhead Band-Aids

    Here we go again putting a Band-Aid over a sucking chest wound. Ask anyone who spends time on Washington and Idaho salmon and steelhead waters why Read More »
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    Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy

    The Global Wind Energy Council recently released its latest report, excitedly boasting that ‘the proliferation of wind energy into the global power market continues at a Read More »
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    Jerry Leeman – Why it is wrong to assume anything

    I’ll use this photo to prove a point. NOAA uses a computer to pick where their assessments on fish stocks will take place. Here lies the Read More »
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    What Trudeau needs to do to become Canada’s first ‘Oceans Prime Minister’

    Last January, The Atlantic magazine named Barack Obama “America’s Ocean President” for protecting a larger ocean area than any former commanders-in-chief.  Does that make Prime Minister Read More »

  • Survivor From Lost Fishing Boat Saved After Coast Guard Ended Search

    This week, the U.S. Coast Guard ended searches for two commercial fishing vessels that each disappeared without a trace, one in Washington and another in Georgia. Read More »
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    This Guy Bickering With A Shark Is The Most Australian Thing Ever

    There are a whole bunch of animals out there that if I came up against them in the wild, I would just let them do whatever Read More »

  • Science is ‘in decay’ because there are too many studies, finds, er, new study

    Science could be in decay as there are simply too many new studies, a new study has found  The research, dubbed ‘Attention decay in science,’ was Read More »

  • N.B. lobster plants had so much trouble finding workers they trashed thousands of kilos of shellfish

    Despite unemployment rates hovering near double-digit territory, some New Brunswick lobster plants were so short-staffed last year that thousands of kilograms of lobster had to be Read More »

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