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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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  • Researchers, shrimpers look for black gill shrimp in Georgia

    This wasn’t your typical cruise. For starters, the day-long journey around Chatham County waterways on the 92-foot R/V Savannah on Thursday was focused on a tiny Read More »
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    Researchers work on better model for impact of fishery closures

    Fisheries managers are faced with a firestorm every time they decide to close a fishery because of poor returns or low population numbers. A new economic Read More »

  • Record Numbers Of Salmon And Orcas Flood Pacific Coast

    Record numbers of salmon, sockeye salmon, in never before seen abundance are swimming into the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia according to the numbers published Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for December 29, 2017

    Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates Click here, for older updates listed as NCFA click here16:54 Read More »

  • ‘We DON’T need the single market’ Fishing boss DESTROYS Remain claims with one fact

    Bertie Armstrong, the CEO of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, told MPs that the depreciation in the value of the pound since June 23 will massively offset Read More »

  • Supporters, Opponents of Offshore Wind Both Look for Hopeful Signs in Trump Administration

    On the day after the elections last week, and even before, the airwaves were crammed with speculation about how this, that, and the other sectors of Read More »

  • Lost crab pots still catching king crab in Kodiak Island bay

    Derelict crab pots lost on the bottom of a Kodiak Island bay are capturing significant numbers of its king crab, according to scientists with the National Read More »
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    F/V Mary B II captain tested positive for amphetamine, methamphetamine

    Coast Guard investigators revealed that the captain of the doomed fishing vessel Mary B II tested positive for methamphetamines and alcohol. Captain Stephen Biernacki registered 0.17 Read More »

  • ATTENTION! ATTENTION!! We have an Official Inquiry!

    An article posted yesterday, January 2, 2012, 2013 has brought an issue to the Board of Inquiry at Fisherynation.com. Scientists fear Canada will fish bluefin tuna and Read More »
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    4 crew members found, Search ongoing for missing fisherman off the coast of Cape Breton

    A search is ongoing in the waters off the coast of Cape Breton for one of five people from the Tyhawk fishing vessel, A CH149 Cormorant Read More »

  • Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council’s spiny lobster review panel, Monday, Feb 9, 0:900

    Open to the public in Key West, Florida, and accessible via webinar. Click here for information, and here to access webinar. 19:50 Read More »
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    Coast Guard rescues fisherman off Chatham

    The Coast Guard medically evacuated a 38-year-old man from a fishing boat 50 miles east of Chatham early Sunday morning, according to a Coast Guard media Read More »
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    Choice based on experience

    When he got his first boat, he named her De Dee Mae – and she worked well for him. In 1979, success led him to Billings Read More »

  • Commission to get briefed on Columbia River salmon fishing reforms

    State fisheries officials will brief the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission here Saturday on the results of the 2013-2016 transition period of the Columbia River salmon Read More »

  • Fishing friends perrish aboard capsized New Zealand charter boat crossing the Kaipara Bar

    Seven men died and the search for one person who is presumed dead and the boat, the Francie, which capsized yesterday in Kaipara Harbour continued on Read More »

  • Awesome Underwater Footage of a White Shark Eating a Grey Seal

    Researchers at the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy snagged video this week of a white shark swimming with her meal. That’s right, the shark is a she. Read More »
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    R.I. fishermen critical of wind farm plan

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  • Shrimpers getting Screwed – Shrimp Season Showdown: Oilmen, shrimper at odds over blasting

    A huge blasting operation by an energy exploration company in prime shrimping waters has pit oilmen against fishermen, who say it interferes with what had promised Read More »

  • About 14,000 young salmon die in Elwha River release of 2.6 million fish

    PORT ANGELES — About 14,000 dead 6-month-old salmon were counted in the rearing ponds of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Elwha River rearing facility Read More »

  • R.I. commercial fishing landed $93.9M in 2016

    Approximately 82.5 million pounds of seafood were commercially landed in Rhode Island in 2016, an increase of 9.1 percent year over year, according to the National Read More »
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    Vineyard Wind to Miss Startup Target Over Permit Delay

    “While we need to analyze what a longer permitting timeline will mean for beginning construction, commercial operation in 2022 is no longer expected,” Vineyard Wind Chief Read More »

  • Fisherman must shell out $100,000 for three rock lobsters caught illegally in marine park

    Two years ago, commercial fisherman Christopher George Hansen caught what might be the most expensive rock lobsters ever netted. The Tasmanian delicacies should have brought him about $200 at market; instead, he Read More »

  • Digby Neck company continues to develop Far East markets for its live lobster at China’s fisheries expo

     president Robert MacDonald, whose company sells about a half-million pounds of live lobster annually in China, is at the expo as part of his two-week tour Read More »

  • A Rosie Report! Observer program gets ‘sea legs’ as fisheries recover

    This summer, the alleged assault of a federal fisheries observer by a deck boss of a groundfish trawler from Astoria,,, Brad Pettinger, director of the Oregon Read More »

  • Trump team nears decision on national monuments

    As Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke approaches the 24 August deadline for his recommendations to President Donald Trump on whether to alter dozens of national monuments, conservation Read More »

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