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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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    Alarm in Irish lobster sector over Hogan’s new US trade deal

    The Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine says Ireland is “still considering” the full implications of the “mini-deal”, which was welcomed as “mutually beneficial” by Mr Read More »
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    Mysterious killer continues to wipe out North East sea life

    Fishing has long been a key part of Teesside’s proud heritage, but locals fear their livelihoods could be wiped out due to a devastating destruction of Read More »

  • B.C. orders clean-up of decaying and abandoned cannery at Namu

    The provincial government has issued orders to clean up “a very dangerous situation” that exists at Namu, on British Columbia’s central coast, where a long-abandoned cannery Read More »

  • Lobstermen prepare for 3-month Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan fishing ban

    Come January, lobsterman Scott Leddin typically starts pulling some of his 800 traps out of the water to let them dry out and to make repairs. Read More »

  • In 100 Years, Maryland’s Crab Cakes Might Be Shrimp Cakes

    For centuries, the Chesapeake Bay has been a natural seafood factory along the East Coast, and that wealth of marine resources has shaped the area’s food Read More »

  • Changes To Northeast Multispecies Common Pool Fishery Days-At-Sea Counting Rates For Fishing Year 2012 Effective Date: September 26, 2012

    http://www.nero.noaa.gov/nr/doc/12/12mulfy11yearenddasadjustmentphl.pdf Read More »
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    CDFW Announces Commercial Dungeness Crab Fishery Closure Off Central California to Protect Humpbacks

    California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Director Charlton H. Bonham has assessed entanglement risk under the Risk Assessment Mitigation Program (RAMP) and announced the closure Read More »

  • The mysterious elver, from Sargasso Sea to sushi

    MACHIAS, Maine — Lost in the rhetorical fog of the ongoing economic, political and cultural controversies surrounding the netting of glass eels along Maine’s rugged shoreline Read More »

  • Fish harvester says possible tariffs leave N.L.’s fishery with a lot of uncertainty

    A pause in the tariff dispute with the United States is not bringing any comfort to Lee Melindy. “We’ve got to have fishing, we’ve got to Read More »

  • Water In The West – The bad news is there’s a crisis. The good news is you can do something about it.

    The water crisis in the United States is a national one, not merely a regional issue of the arid West. Consider recent events in the humid Read More »
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    A WICKED WINTER NIGHT – By Capt. Jack

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    Meteghan NS fisherman reflects on time in Ukraine helping others

    When he was on a humanitarian mission in Ukraine to help the people of his home country, Lex Brukovskiy, like countless others, had an app on Read More »

  • UPDATED! BREAKING: 4 dead, Dozens Injured in Gulf of Mexico oil rig fire

    One person was killed and 16 were injured after an oil rig burst into flame in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, Mexico’s state-run oil company said. Read More »
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    Newfoundland: Equinor, Exxon given environmental go-ahead for exploratory drilling offshore

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    Maritime apprenticeship program seeks to fill labor gap

    The students began training with the Northwest Maritime Apprenticeship, a four-year program that will arm them with skills and experience and provide desperately needed labor to Read More »
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    Alaska Commercial Fisherman Paul Richard Harder has passed away

    Paul Richard Harder died unexpectedly at home in Hawai’i on Dec. 13, 2021 of a heart attack. Paul was born Aug. 22, 1951, in Seattle to Read More »

  • North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for January 18, 2016

    Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 12:22 Read More »

  • Multiple restaurants found mislabeling Gulf shrimp | So why do they remain anonymous?

    Shrimp and seafood lovers in and around Louisiana and the Gulf Coast may have seen a recent report from SeaD Consulting, a company that does genetic Read More »

  • Feds recommend removing dams from Klamath River – leaving office, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called on Congress to take action

    GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The federal government on Thursday recommended that all four aging hydroelectric dams be removed from the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Read More »
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    No feast during sockeye famine in Richmond

    For a second year in a row, all commercial fishing of the Fraser River’s sockeye salmon has been closed by the Fraser River Panel, the regulatory Read More »

  • Small Norwegian fishing boat confronted Russian warship during live-shooting exercise

    “This is Russian warship, you need to leave the area”, was the message chief mate Øystein Orten got over the radio as his crew was about Read More »

  • Missing crew from Alaska fishing boat identified

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  • Underutilized fish can be overfished too – Sam Parisi, Gloucester

    I keep hearing of the need to find markets to develop underutilized species, and it could help. The problem I have is every time we do this, Read More »
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    New Bedford Man Shares Experience on Cruise Ship Struck By Fishing Vessel

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    For fishermen traveling to Bristol Bay, Alaska Air confusion complicates early season

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