CANCELED: Lobstermen pull together for Travis Mills Foundation

October 28, 2023 National, New England

Update: Due to the tragic events of this week in Lewiston, this event has been canceled for this year, according to local team organizer Jennie Mitchell. Original Post: On Saturday, Oct. 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. lobstermen from up and down the coast of Maine will be one of the 45 teams pulling a FedEx 757 airplane down the runway at the Portland Jetport to help raise funds for the Travis Mills Foundation. Team Captain Troy Plummer has gotten fishermen from as far away as Machias, Vinalhaven, Friendship, Rockland and, of course, Boothbay Harbor, to participate in what is being billed as a “Pay it Forward” effort from the lobstermen for all the support they have received in their struggle to save the lobstering industry. >>click to read<< 12:05

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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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