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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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  • New England Fishery Management Council meeting in Portland Me. – December 1st thru 3rd – Listen Live!

    The New England Fishery Management Council and its advisory bodies will meet December 1 thru 3, 2015 Holiday Inn by the Bay, Portland, Me. View the Revised Read More »
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    ‘We need it desperately’: Great Lakes Commercial Fishermen look for help as industry shrinks

    Commercial fishing on the Great Lakes began 150 years ago, and fishermen once numbered in the thousands. Now, only a handful of businesses are still at Read More »

  • Dungeness Crab season begins January 5

    The commercial Dungeness crab season commences in Del Norte County, this week. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFWD) announced the Dungeness season is now Read More »

  • Steller sea lion lawsuit parties ask court to change timeline on reimbursement decision

    Fishing industry plantiffs and federal defendants have asked for a new timeline to decide reimbursements in the lawsuit over Steller sea lion protection measures.The Alaska Seafood Read More »
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    F/V Scandies Rose: Expert witnesses point to flawed stability calculations

    When the Scandies Rose sank on New Year’s Eve of 2019, fishermen from all over Alaska were shocked. Five of the crew perished when the ship Read More »
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    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 »

  • South Australia Wants to Solve Their Seal Problem with Underwater Bombs

    The long-nosed fur seal population in South Australia’s Coorong region has been getting out of hand for a while now. The state population now tops 100,000, Read More »

  • Updated Reports Available on Fishery and Port Impacts Associated with Offshore Wind Development Along the U.S. Atlantic Coast

    NOAA Fisheries updated and expanded existing analyses and reports to help the public better understand the impacts of offshore wind development on commercial and recreational fisheries Read More »
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    Dennis Gaff – ‘Proud to be a Cromer fisherman’

    Tributes have been paid to a stalwart of Cromer’s fishing scene, who has died at the age of 90. When Dennis Gaff, who was born in the Read More »

  • DREDGEMASTER: The World First Wireless Monitoring System for Scallop Dredges.

    Notus Electronic Ltd. (Notus) has been supplying wireless sensors to the commercial fishing industry for 22 years. Notus has just released the Dredgemaster, a wireless sensor Read More »
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    Undersea cable survey marks milestone in Maine’s offshore wind quest

    Three marine vessels that study the makeup and geology of seabeds are scheduled to arrive in Maine over the next week or so to survey the Read More »
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    Commercial Fisherman Captain Jason Ian Nevel of Ohio has passed away

    Jason came into this life on November 19, 1977, in Hamilton, Ohio. As early as age 6 he was drawing pictures of fish and boats and said Read More »
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    State engineer accuses SouthCoast Wind of lying to RI agencies. What the email says.

    David Ciochetto, an ocean engineer with the state Coastal Resources Management Council, said the joint venture between Shell and Ocean Winds made false statements about its offshore Read More »

  • Cheers & Jeers, Treasures that washed ashore this week – Cape fishermen deserve fair share

    While many commercial fishermen, especially big-boat crews out of New Bedford and Gloucester, blame the federal government for the dismal state of the New England fishing Read More »

  • Coakley hears fishermen’s plight – Attorney general vows to continue pressing fed suit

    Coakley spent part of the day dispensing with her duties as the state’s chief law enforcement official, meeting in the late afternoon with about 20 local Read More »

  • South Shore Fishermen Taking a Beating! FISHY BUSINESS: No vacation, just a battle for fishermen facing regulations

    Many of us are enjoying the recreation that Scituate’s shores and water access afford both residents and our friends that visit from elsewhere for vacation, despite Read More »
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    Product of USA??? President and Chief Executive sentenced, fined for mislabeling crab meat

    Officials say Phillip Carawan sold foreign crabmeat that his company, Capt. Neill’s Seafood Inc., labeled as Blue Club from the United States.,, According to their plea Read More »

  • Killing to Conserve – Is it effective, or ethical, to cull one protected species to help another?

    From a population reduced to about 10,000 in the 1950s, California sea lion numbers have grown to nearly 390,000 since they were protected under the Marine Read More »
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    Canfisco hopes to defend quota system at Ottawa committee

    Richmond-based Canfisco hopes to present to a new Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans examining West Coast fishery regulations come next February, at the latest. Rob Read More »

  • CDFW Opens Commercial Dungeness Crab Fishery in Northern Management Zone, Continues Commercial Fishery Delay in Central Management Area.

    The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will open the commercial Dungeness crab fishery from the Oregon state line to the Sonoma/Mendocino county line (Fishing Read More »

  • The ‘great Brexit betrayal’! PM’s plan to adopt EU laws blasted by furious fishermen

    Ahead of the Conservative Party conference last week, Theresa May set out her proposal for a Great Repeal Bill to end the supremacy of Brussels’ law Read More »

  • Gang Green expects the NMFS to fix Global Warming to save the coral, and they agree to it!!

    September 13 – In a settlement filed in federal court today, the National Marine Fisheries Service committed to developing a recovery plan for elkhorn and staghorn  corals Read More »

  • 25 years later, Exxon Valdez spill effects linger

    For a generation of people around the world, the spill was seared into their memories by images of fouled coastline in Prince William Sound, of sea Read More »
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    Comment Period Extended for Nordic Aquafarms

    DMR is accepting comments solely about the potential impacts of the proposed dredging operation on fishing in the area to be dredged and on impacts to Read More »
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    Mills signs offshore wind ban amid lingering skepticism from fishermen

    LD 1619, sponsored by Sen. Mark Lawrence (D-Eliot), stipulates new offshore wind developments are permanently prohibited in state waters, but will be permitted in federal waters Read More »

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