Deckhand killed in fishing boat disaster was not wearing lifejacket

February 14, 2025 International, International News

A Scots deckhand who drowned and seven other crew who were rescued after a fishing boat capsized off the coast of Norway were not wearing lifejackets an investigation has found. Ronald Mackinnon, 56, from Peterhead, lost his life when the UK-registered Njord trawler got into difficulty west of Stavanger in March 2022. A probe by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has now found that none of the eight crew ‘were able to don personal flotation devices or lifejackets’ after the boat suffered a ‘substantial list’ and started taking on water. The report states that the crew had been taking on an ‘unusually large haul of fish’ when the tragedy happened. Photos, >>CLICK TO READ<< 09:22

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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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