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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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    3 dead after boat sinks near Quebec’s Lower North Shore

    Three people are dead after a fishing vessel capsized and sank just off La Tabatière, on Quebec’s Lower North Shore, Quebec provincial police say. Three others Read More »

  • Fishermen Eagerly Await Pink Salmon Opener; Astonishingly Early Start to Alaska Chum Salmon

    3-Minute Market Insight: This year is looking to be a good one for Pink salmon, both in Russia and here in North America. In the Prince Read More »
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    Striped bass are underfed, not overfished

    Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, or ASMFC, has determined (again!) that the number of spawning Atlantic striped bass is below the required threshold to maintain proper Read More »
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    Pile driving for constructing offshore wind turbine supports alters feeding behaviors of longfin squid

    With the offshore wind industry expanding in the United States and elsewhere, a new study raises questions about how the noise from impact pile driving to Read More »

  • Coast Guard continues to investigate collision of F/V Pedlar and sinking of F/V Robert C

    Divers finished plugging the vents of a sunken Fairhaven-based vessel Thursday near Martha’s Vineyard to avoid future fuel discharge, the Coast Guard said Friday. The Robert Read More »
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    Most likely Carnival Cruise Lines is responsible for 18+ Right Whale deaths in the past 3 year, at which rate they would soon be extinct.

    Human caused Right whale deaths have suddenly, in sync with a plummeting whale birthrate, put the right whale on the path to extinction.,,, There is the simple Read More »
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    Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation – Icy spray, heavy pots may have doomed Seattle crab boat F/V Destination

    What caused the February sinking of the Seattle-based Destination in the Bering Sea? On the morning of Feb. 11, crab-boat skipper Daher Jorge received a Coast Guard Read More »

  • Fishing for business: Cortez one of Florida’s few remaining fishing villages

    Karen Bell can’t think of any­thing she’d rather be do­ing than run­ning a com­mer­cial fish­ing op­er­a­tion along Florida’s Gulf Coast. A.P. Bell, on the north­ern edge Read More »

  • High-tech Northern Leader leaves Tacoma shipyard for Alaskan waters

    The Northern Leader, the largest commercial fishing boat built in the Northwest in the last two decades, left its moorings at J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Co. on Sunday Read More »

  • Nova Scotia tuna fishermen say Shea, MacAulay pandering to locals

    Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea says the fear of longliners entering the Gulf of St. Lawrence to fish tuna this year is a non-issue being fanned Read More »
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    COP That Wind & Solar: Nuclear Power Drives French Renewables Resistance

    The French already get more than 70% of their power from nuclear plants. Now, thanks to a massive month-long wind power output collapse, that proportion is Read More »

  • Massachusetts State Attorney General Martha Coakley has filed suit against NOAA – Go Martha!

    BOSTON — State Attorney General Martha Coakley has filed suit against the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, charging that NOAA wrongly failed to consider the “devastating Read More »

  • Prince Charles and his Privatization/Consolidation EDF Intoxication Situation.

    The world’s oceans could be saved if they were turned into attractive investment opportunities, according to a new report by the Prince of Wales’ International Sustainability Read More »

  • Six Terrebonne oystermen arrested

    Six Terrebonne Parish oystermen were arrested late last week for taking oysters during a closed season, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Read More »
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    Last Voyage of Two Irish Fishing Vessels Before Break-Up in Denmark

    Two Aran Island fishing vessels which were approved for Irelands decommissioning scheme, recently completed their last trip before being broken up. The 17-metre Connacht Ranger and Read More »

  • Catch Shares for Central Gulf of Alaska Trawl Groundfish Fisheries? Control Date December 31, 2012, for Qualifying Landings

    The National Marine Fisheries Service published  its intention to work on rationalization for central Gulf of Alaska trawl  groundfish fisheries in the federal register Dec. 26. Read More »

  • Cod 017 telling amazing story

    Of the millions of cod caught in Newfoundland and Labrador waters in the past 500 years, few have stood out in any special way from all Read More »

  • Feds recommend removing dams from Klamath River – leaving office, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called on Congress to take action

    GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The federal government on Thursday recommended that all four aging hydroelectric dams be removed from the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Read More »
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    California King Salmon Season Reopens July 26

    California’s commercial salmon fishermen are thrilled to again provide some of the world’s best tasting salmon – the California King Salmon! In fact, chefs, foodies and Read More »
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    Cod fishery plummets to least valuable year since 1960s

    Maine’s cod fishery, once one of the most lucrative in the Northeast, has declined to the point that it had its least valuable year in more Read More »
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    Can anyone save the North Atlantic right whale? A group of South Shore lobstermen say they know what the answer is

    By the time Mike Lane shoves off the Cohasset docks, it’s past 8 a.m. — practically lunch time for a lobsterman. But it’s early spring, and Read More »
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    High lobster prices could be a sign of things to come for P.E.I.’s spring fishery

    The cost of the crustaceans in most stores is higher than normal for this time of year, running anywhere from $20 to $26 per pound. Most Read More »
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    Sipekne’katik Social and Ceremonial Fishery Delayed To June 3rd

    The start of a first nations lobster fishery in St. Mary’s Bay has been delayed. The Sipekne’katik First Nation planned to launch a food, social and Read More »

  • Gillnetter F/V Native Son II ‘in the right place at the right time’

    They had been fishing off of Boston for groundfish in state waters on Monday morning and the day was just about over for the crew of Read More »

  • East End legislators at odds over bill to study Millstone power plant impacts

    “The water temperatures of the sound are rising at an alarming rate,” Schneiderman said. “Data collected show the sound’s temperature is rising one degree per decade Read More »

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