Fishermen get probation, fines for scheme to avoid herring quotas

July 11, 2024 New England

Eight men from Maine and one from New Hampshire – comprised of the owner, captains, and crew members of a commercial fishing vessel, the Western Sea, and owners of local Maine fisheries – have been sentenced for knowingly subverting commercial fishing reporting requirements. The final six sentences in the complex case were handed down this week by U.S. District Judge Jon Levy in U.S. District Court in Portland, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday July 11. The Western Sea is a fishing vessel that operated out of Rockland and fished for Atlantic herring. Atlantic herring is the primary bait fish for Maine’s lobster industry. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 19:49

35-count indictment, a multi-year scheme, Andrew Banow, charged in connection, Duston Reed, Ethan Chase, falsify fishing records, fines, fisherman get probation, Glenn Lawrence, Glenn Robbins, Jason Parent, maine, Maine Marine Patrol, Neil Herrick, New Moon Fisheries, NOAA, Portland, Sam's Seafood, Samuel Olson, scheduled for September, scheme to avoid herring quotas, Stephen Little, superseding indictment was issued, to sell unreported Atlantic herring, trial of six fishermen, U.S. District Judge Jon Levy, Western Sea Inc.

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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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