‘We were never alone, the Coast Guard was always there with us’ — City celebrates Station Gloucester

August 21, 2023 New England

As Gloucester 400+ committee members and speakers honored the long service of Coast Guard Station Gloucester during an Appreciation Day at the station Friday morning, rain and wind lashed the windows of the mess deck where the ceremony took place. As the squall intensified, the wind drove water under the outside door and onto the floor as if the small boat station on Harbor Loop were taking on water. Some said this symbolized the way Coast Guard Station Gloucester has been watching over Gloucester’s fishing fleet and boaters caught in storms since 1901. and station members appreciated being a part of America’s oldest seaport. Photos, >click to read< 11:52

Angela Sanfilippo, Assistant Gloucester Harbormaster Chad Johnson, Boatswain’s Mate Third Class Bailey Ceryak, Bob Breaker, Coast Guard Station Gloucester, Commanding Officer James Bridges, F/V Andrea Gail, Fireman Walker Stebbins, former Gloucester Harbormaster Jim Caulkett Jr., former Mayor Bruce Tobey, gloucester, Gloucester 400+ committee members, Gloucester Fisheries Heritage Month, Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association, Harbormaster Thomas “T.J.” Ciarametaro, Joseph McKechnie, Karen Tibbetts, Mary Ellen Rose, massachusetts, Mayor Greg Verga, speakers honored, state Sen. Minority Leader Bruce Tarr

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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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