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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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    Want to start eating Scottish fish? Here are the best places to start

    If Scotland really does have such fabulous seafood, why do ordinary citizens find it so hard to tap into this much eulogised catch? The problem has Read More »

  • Five Indicted on Charges of Embezzling Nearly $500,000 From Trident Seafoods Five people with ties to Kodiak, Alaska

    Five people with ties to Kodiak, Alaska have been indicted on charges of wire fraud related to the embezzlement of almost $500,000 from Trident Seafoods. US Read More »

  • Coast Guard assists one from sinking vessel near Guemes Island, Wash.

    At approximately 5 p.m. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received a mayday call from Clam Digger, a 59-foot fishing vessel, reporting that it was taking on Read More »

  • Portland Harbor’s icy buildup creates a sea of trouble – Video

    Standing in the wheelhouse of the tug Andrew McAllister as it approached Portland Harbor on Friday, Capt. Bob Rand steered around Spring Point and ran into Read More »
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    Massachusetts Lobstermen to rally in Plymouth over Cape Cod Bay closures

    After a period of bad weather, surveyors of North Atlantic right whales were able to fly on Tuesday over Cape Cod Bay, where the continuing presence Read More »

  • Yarmouth Sea Products outlines extensive safety steps taken following serious injury to crewmember in 2015

    It was just supposed to be another ordinary fishing trip, except that on the water things don’t always happen the way they’re supposed to. But that Read More »

  • New Measures Proposed for Federal Waters Lobster Fishery

    Seeking comments on proposed changes to the  for Lobster Conservation Management Areas 2, 3, 4, and 5, including trap reductions in Areas 2 and 3, and Read More »
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    “Things could’ve been way worse”: Spring lobster season nears end amid coronavirus, “Things are stabilizing”

    The Maritime Fishermen’s Union predicted a gloomy forecast for the spring season with the pandemic’s safety concerns, crushed markets and reduced processing capacity. But fishermen are Read More »
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    “There’s something awful fishy going on here”: What about Clearwater and the offshore lobster fishery?

    Media attention is trained on St. Mary’s Bay in southwest Nova Scotia, where the Sipekne’katik First Nation led by Chief Michael Sack has been exercising Treaty Read More »
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    All 7 crew of capsized Japanese fishing boat rescued

    Two Japanese and five Indonesian crew members have been rescued after their 15-meter tuna fishing boat was found capsized about 400 kilometers from the Pacific island Read More »

  • Puget Sound Herring, other forage fish, at risk

    The survey for herring eggs in kelp beds continues throughout the herring  spawning season, from February in most areas of Puget Sound through June for  late-spawning Read More »

  • Study: Population of great whites rebounding

    CHATHAM — Sightings of great white sharks in Cape waters is one indicator that the species is rebounding from the lows of 20 years ago, according Read More »

  • York, Maine – Residents alarmed as Coast Guard changes foghorns

    For Tom Bradbury and his neighbors, the town foghorn is more than just a familiar, wistful noise — it represents something greater, like peace itself. “There’s Read More »
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    More dead crabs and lobsters along North East coast

    The government is investigating after new reports of dead crabs and lobsters along the North East coast. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Read More »

  • Area commercial harvest reaches over 438,000 salmon

    When state fisheries biologists shut down the Copper River commercial salmon for two 12-hour openers on June 3 and June 8 retail markets in Anchorage ran Read More »

  • F/V ‘Sea Mac’ Owner/Operator Indicted on Lacey Act Charges

    In announcement made Friday, U.S. Attorney  Karen Loeffler reported that State of Washington resident, 54-year-old Steven Carr was indicted by a Grand Jury in Anchorage for Read More »

  • Fishery officers make 39 arrests and seizures at rivers for unauthorized elver fishing

    Unauthorized fishing is a threat to the sustainability of fish stocks and undermines the livelihoods of law-abiding fish harvesters. The elver fishery is not open for Read More »

  • Gifford Cooke, co-founder of Cooke Aquaculture, dies at 85

    Gifford Cooke, who founded the now global seafood company Cooke Aquaculture from its humble beginnings in southwest New Brunswick, died on Sunday at 85. Cooke founded Read More »

  • Chamberlain and Rothschild Apply for Patent – METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING FISH CATCHES

    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards determining, at sea, the respective weights of fish species that are part of a fish catch. By way of Read More »

  • Letter: Fisherfolk should get behind new union by Oswan Tucker, Reef’s Harbour

    Now is the time to finish what we started last year, which was to get rid of the FFAW. The Fish, Food and Allied Workers union Read More »

  • STATUS OF STOCKS 2012 – REPORT TO CONGRESS

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  • Save US shrimping industry. Buy domestic wild-caught shrimp.

    For decades, South Carolina’s shrimpers have faced challenges, but the imported shrimp crisis has reached a critical juncture. The influx of foreign shrimp, often at artificially low Read More »

  • Alaska fisherman from Coupeville isn’t sure where reality TV journey will take him but he’s enjoying ride

    “It happened rather quickly,” Keohane said. Keohane answered a casting call last summer and landed a part on the reality fishing series, Alaska Fish Wars, which recently Read More »
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    Thiele Calls For Overhaul Of Commercial Fishing Licensing

    New York State Assemblyman Fred Thiele wants environmental regulators to reform the commercial fishing licensing system in the state. Approximately one-third of all licenses in the Read More »
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    Oops! Cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was probably a bad idea

    Last month, a group of marine biologists noticed something fishy in a video posted on Twitter by a nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup. “This is likely a staged Read More »

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