Georgia’s Food Shrimp Season Extended Until Jan 17

January 5, 2025 South Atlantic

Georgia’s commercial and recreational food shrimp season has been extended to Jan. 17, 2025. This decision by the Commissioner of Natural Resources was based on scientific data and favorable environmental conditions and aims to provide fishers with additional opportunities while maintaining sustainability. The extension applies to Georgia’s territorial waters, which extend three miles out to sea, and allows for the continued harvest of food shrimp by both commercial and recreational fishers. For more information, visit CoastalGaDNR.org or call 912-264-7218. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 06:25

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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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