Cory Alley, island leader, dies suddenly

January 11, 2024 New England

Cory Alley, Islesford lobsterman and chair of the Cranberry Isles Select Board, died after collapsing in his outboard while heading to his lobster boat last Friday, Jan. 5. Islesford’s first responders tried to resuscitate him as another boat captain took him to the Coast Guard Station in Southwest Harbor, but efforts were unsuccessful. He was 50. Alley leaves behind his wife, Cari, the town’s health officer and a member of the School Committee, as well as four children: a son at Ashley Bryan School on Islesford, a son at Mount Desert Elementary, a daughter at MDI High School and an adult daughter. 2 photos, more, >>click to read<< 08:12

Cory Alley, dies suddenly, island leader, ISLESFORD, maine

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
April 2024

M T W T F S S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30

« Mar

April 2024
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

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

Recent Posts
- R.I. delegation raises concerns with speed of offshore wind review
  
  Why the rush? Avangrid CEO Jim Torgerson spelled it out to investors on a call last week: To take advantage of an expiring federal tax credit, Read More »
- A day in the life of a Georgia shrimper
  
  Capt. Eddie Poppell, 61, arrives with his crew, sons Bubba, 40, and Jake, 24, to start outfitting the F/V Sea Fox for a day of shrimping Read More »
- Who’s on the take? Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Mitigation Can Ease Offshore Wind Opponents’ Pain
  
  Opponents of offshore wind offer different reasons for their position: fear of impacts on the marine ecology; fear of loss of income for fishers; fear of Read More »
- For longtime Wakulla fisherman, mullet is still the perfect catch
  
  About 8:30 a.m. in 20-degree weather on 2018’s first Saturday, 80-year-old commercial fisherman Jonas Porter was catching mullet along Wakulla County’s coastline. Nothing stops him from Read More »
- Last In-First Out: Todays various articles from the region
  
  ‘More questions than there are answers,’ FFAW says on scrapped LIFO policy – Click here Federal fisheries minister’s decision on dispute in the Atlantic region sure Read More »
- 1984 – Liberal cabinet was split on seal hunt, while refusing to give into ‘blackmail’ from animal rights groups
  
  The controversial Atlantic seal caused caused a major split in the Liberal cabinet of 1984, secret documents obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter show. Ministers cursed the International Read More »
- Underwater cables linked to deformities and poor swimming ability in lobsters
  
  Marine scientists used a specialist aquarium laboratory at St Abbs Marine Station in the Borders to expose more than 4,000 lobster and crab eggs to a Read More »
- Coronavirus: B.C. commercial fishery amid sectors fearing COVID-19 current market fallout
  
  B.C.’s seafood sector, currently strike by a collapse in exports to Asia for the reason that of COVID-19 all through the new Lunar New Yr, is Read More »
- North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for May 15, 2015
  
  Click to read Weekly Update for May 15, 2015 as a PDF To read all the updates, click here 10:50 Read More »
- Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 40′ Novi Gillnetter/Lobster, 300HP John Deere
  
  Specifications, information and 17 photos >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >Click here<12:55 Read More »
- Everyone’s Mad About Fugitive Salmon in the Pacific Northwest!
  
  In a giant refrigerated warehouse 90 miles north of Seattle, 43,500 Atlantic salmon were stacked in plastic crates, frozen pariahs in a kingdom where Pacific salmon Read More »
- Where did global warming go? The deep ocean, experts say
  
  The deep oceans have recently been soaking up much of the excess heat trapped under the ever-thickening blanket of greenhouse gases that humans pump into the Read More »
- My Turn: Ben Landry: Have honest discussion on fishing
  
  In his July 7 column (“Opinions on changes toquota are divided”), Capt. Dave Monti makes multiple inaccurate claims about the biology and management of menhaden — Read More »
- Pete Frates, who championed and inspired the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, passed away on Monday
  
  “Pete was an inspiration to so many people around the world who drew strength from his courage and resiliency,” his loved ones wrote. “A natural born Read More »
- Their View! Building trust with fishermen is key for wind energy companies
  
  There’s a lot of buzz in New Bedford these days about the offshore wind industry- and for good reason. Blowing in with the massive turbines will Read More »
- Father and son keep their family fishing tradition alive
  
  Like a lot of things on the old boat, the starter was beat up and broken. To get underway, Nick Nieuwkerk connected the electrical terminals with Read More »
- Offshore Wind Farms: NJ forcefully tips its hand, as we read this stuff delivers a fraction of its total capacity!
  
  Governor Phil Murphy has set a goal for 7500 megawatts of offshore wind-generated electricity by 2035. It is an ambitious goal. It is also a goal that leaves little Read More »
- Fish farming fouls fjords, faces fines
  
  Norway’s huge fish-farming industry has become almost as controversial as the country’s oil and gas. Salmon producers in particular have long been accused of endangering wild Read More »
- F/V Osprey had trouble on George’s Bank
  
  The EMD main engine snapped the shaft on one of the blowers that keep the 1600 horse power “Railroad Train” style engine running. After the net Read More »
- Looking Back: Life on board the Hull Trawler Ross Orion
  
  We look back through a collection of images taken on board a Hull trawler named Ross Orion. They were taken just months before the horrific triple Read More »
- Fishermen accused of poaching in a Marine Reserve using gear stolen from fellow crabbers
  
  Two North Coast fishermen face criminal charges after allegedly poaching crab in the protected Cape Falcon Marine Reserve using gear stolen from fellow crabbers. Scott Edward Read More »
- UK Overseas Territories Marine Protection Areas to double in four years
  
  Speaking ahead of “Our Ocean” conference in Washington DC, Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan announced plans to double the area of ocean under marine protection Read More »
- It’s time to talk crab season projections – NPFMC to meet to approve catch limits, discuss management plan
  
  The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will meet in Anchorage from Oct. 5-11 to overview crab season projections, hear further discussions of halibut management, and decide Read More »
- New Bedford Mayor to NOAA Fisheries Science Center: Fishermen have no confidence in Groundfish Assessments
  
  New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell has written to NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center Science and Research Director Bill Karp regarding anticipated cuts in 2013 Annual Catch Read More »
- The Recovery Plan for the Sunken Fishing Tender Lone Star Includes Towing the Vessel to Dutch Harbor
  
  The large fishing tender that sank in late June in the mouth of a major sockeye producing river in Bristol Bay is still leaking fuel as Read More »