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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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    Paragraph Boat’s Loss Poses Questions – Just over a year after its delivery, Norwegian longliner F/V Fay sank

    Built at Stadyard, F/V Fay was typical for new larger Norwegian coastal fishing vessels, with a 20.99 metre overall length and a 10 metre beam. Such Read More »
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    Haines Landslide. Two Haines residents still missing as four of six are found safe

    There are still two missing residents. Jenae Larson and David Simmons have been missing since Wednesday afternoon’s mudslide. They lived at the same Beach Road property Read More »

  • Pressure mounting for US tuna fleet to secure tuna rights after ‘no deal’

    A shareholder in the largest U.S. tuna fleet  this week decrying the ‘no deal’ conclusion  of American treaty negotiations with Pacific Island nations that leaves the Read More »
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    Hurricane Ida: Commercial fishers in Louisiana – “That’s our living. I have nothing to fall back on,,,

    “I was just trying to save every little thing I could and ended up losing it anyway,” Darrel Domangue said. “It’s hard to leave when you Read More »

  • Filmmaker John Hopkins says Bluefin tuna becoming ‘just like pets’!

    A new documentary on the Atlantic bluefin tuna says the giant fish are exhibiting unusual behaviour after they migrate into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where Read More »

  • DFO ‘fudging the numbers,’ unprecedented court injunction has barred Department of Fisheries and Oceans from opening commercial fishery off Vancouver Island

    An unprecedented court injunction has barred the Department of Fisheries and Oceans from opening a commercial fishery off Vancouver Island after a judge concluded DFO was Read More »

  • Rocky Barker: The Endangered Species Act survives, but not all species will

    Aldo Leopold’s seed of wisdom grew into the law that has become the foundation of ecosystem protection for 40 years. President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Read More »

  • David and Ellen Goethel talk with Roger Wood About Their Favorite Subjects

    David Goethel of Hampton may have retired from commercial fishing, but he’s still on the water on a regular basis.  Ellen Goethel, his wife and partner Read More »
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    State of Maine: Real consequences of whale rules

    Here we go again. Federal fisheries regulators have been tightening the screws on Maine lobstermen for decades. Now they are planning to take another turn in Read More »
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    Scuttled Offshore Wind Plans Are Good News For Ratepayers, North Atlantic Right Whales

    The hype about offshore wind energy keeps getting scuttled by reality. That’s the clear conclusion from last month’s announcement that Spanish utility company, Avangrid, was halting work Read More »
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    Alaska Supreme Court hears challenge to fish landing tax

    Since the 1990s, Alaska has taxed seafood caught by factory trawlers and floating processors through the Fisheries Resource Landing Tax. Even though the fish is caught outside Read More »

  • US SHOULD REFUSE ANY QUOTA REDUCTION FOR HAWAII BIGEYE TUNA – WESTERN PACIFIC REGIONAL FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL

    HONOLULU (18 October 2013) The United States should not accept a reduction in the bigeye tuna limit for the Hawaii longline fishery, according to the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Read More »

  • Meager aid for N.J. marine industry stirs anger

    Despite a pool of more than $75 million in federal appropriations for fisheries disaster relief from Hurricane Sandy and other storm damage, at only $1.5 million, Read More »

  • New Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Cape Wind lawsuit: Mass. exceeded its authority

    The suit alleges that state regulators exceeded their authority in setting wholesale rates for the contract in violation of both the Federal Power Act and the Read More »
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    To the Rescue! LI fishermen donate fish to feed hungry during the coronavirus crisis

    Montauk fishermen came to the rescue of its local residents when they gave away more than 1,000 pounds of freshly caught fish to help those in Read More »

  • Fisheries scientists head out for summer sea census – Most of the catch expected to be haddock, dogfish, silver hake and lobster

    Ten scientists with Fisheries and Oceans Canada headed out from the dock at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography on Monday for a three-week research trip to Read More »
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    Coast Guard assists 17 fishermen off Pacific Northwest Coast since Sunday

    Coast Guard crews along the Oregon and Washington coasts assisted 17 fisherman in five responses since Sunday. Response efforts included crews from Coast Guard Station Yaquina Read More »

  • Louisiana Seafood Board Encourages Gulf Council to Keep Current Red Snapper Quota

    Meeting at the Capitol in Baton Rogue, the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board  took a strong stand against the current preferred alternative recommended by the Gulf Read More »

  • Researchers use the North Atlantic Oscillation as a predictive tool for managing Gulf of Maine Cod

    In recent decades, the plight of Atlantic cod off the coast of New England has been front-page news. Since the 1980s in particular, the once-seemingly inexhaustible Read More »
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    Next Level Plotter

    The market for marine electronics isn’t short of chart plotters, but Håvard Holm at Norwegian company SailorsMate is certain that he and his team have come Read More »
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    Port of Newport evaluation – some good, some not so much

    An evaluation audit of the Port of Newport brought up a number of issues that are common knowledge – the main one being it’s all about Read More »
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    Fisheries rights trial for 4 Mi’kmaw fishermen delayed

    The trial for Ashton Joseph Bernard, 31, Arden Joseph Bernard, 22, Rayen Gage Frances, 22 and Zachery Cuevas Nicholas, 34 was supposed to begin Friday morning Read More »

  • Ya can’t make this stuff up! – This weird deep-sea worm has a dick on its head – From the good folks at grist

    The bone-eating snot-flower worm (or Osedax mucofloris if you wanna get prissy) was just discovered less than a decade ago, on the ocean floor — and Read More »
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    Local trawler has given his life to seafood industry, says it’s vital to protect our heritage

    Next year will mark 50 years that David Dardar has been in the seafood industry, dating back to when he got his first boat as a Read More »

  • Do “Catch Reconstructions” really Implicate Overfishing?

    A new paper led by Daniel Pauly of the University of British Columbia that found global catch data, as reported to the FAO, to be significantly Read More »

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