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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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  • Maine Fishermen’s Forum Honors Cape Elizebeth Fire Department Water Extrication Team

    During a special presentation at the 2024 Maine Fishermen’s Forum, the Cape Elizabeth Fire Department’s Water Extrication Team (WET) was recognized for its dramatic rescue of Read More »
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    Iconic Brunswick shrimp boat sinks during Helene

    The Dora F, the second oldest shrimp fishing vessel operating on the East Coast, broke free from its dock in Brunswick’s East River and sank as Read More »

  • Sen.Vitter’s dead-zone stance is wrong, coastal experts say

    The Gulf dead zone south of Louisiana and Texas was above average in size this summer, and is getting some needed attention after no recent progress Read More »
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    Something Irritated Her Eye; She Pulled Out A Cattle Worm (Photo)

    During the summer of 2016, Abby Beckley was working as a deck hand on a commercial fishing boat near Southeast Alaska when her left eye started Read More »
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    Ocracoke’s Two Blanches

    Blanche Howard Joliff was a young teenager when her father, Stacy Howard, decided in 1934 that he needed another boat. He commissioned a master boatbuilder, Tom Read More »

  • Mine spill ‘unlikely’ to harm spawning Fraser sockeye

    The Mount Polley mine tailings pond spill is “unlikely” to significantly harm Fraser River sockeye now returning to spawn in fouled Quesnel Lake, according to the Read More »
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    Oregon commercial crab fishery to open north of Cape Falcon Feb. 16

    This area has remained closed to commercial crabbing to coordinate an orderly start with the Washington coastal Dungeness crab fishery. Results from recent domoic acid testing Read More »
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    Flooded market has Dungeness crab prices way down

    After waiting more than six weeks for the Dungeness crab season to finally open in early January, customers have no doubt noticed that prices are lower than Read More »

  • The Esther II: A father’s boat, a son’s heart

    TREMONT –  Back in the 1940s and ‘50s, Charles Orville Trask used to set out from Bass Harbor and head 20 miles offshore to lobster fish and Read More »

  • The Kodiak Chamber of Commerce invites you to a Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate Tonight! 7 PM, (11PM eastern)

    Governor Sean Parnell,  Byron Mallott and Bill Walker square off over fish, and mining! Watch the debate here, kmxt ustream tv  16:40   Read More »
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    Auction of historic lobster wharf could change life on this Maine island

    The first true sign of spring arrived Tuesday on Bailey Island, as temperatures hovered around 60 degrees and lobstermen painted buoys and repaired traps near Cook’s Read More »
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    AFT Holdings to Withdraw from Direct Investment in Tuna Vessels

    AFT Holdings, Inc. today announced its intent this year to withdraw its direct investment in the U.S. Flagged Ocean Global and Sea Global Fleet of Tuna Read More »

  • Savannah River fish passage could divert up to 100 percent of the Savannah River’s flow to a series of rock ramps

    The newest proposed design for fish passage at New Savannah Bluff could divert up to 100 percent of the Savannah River’s flow to a series of Read More »

  • Skeptics question cash for fishermen – Kitzhaber repeats promise to help gillnetters move off Columbia main stem, video

    Kitzhaber unveiled his proposed budget Monday, although it must be approved by the Legislature. It includes money for gillnetters to change their gear and some reimbursement Read More »

  • Fraser sockeye shun U.S. waters, fill B.C. nets

    A quirk of nature has handed B.C. commercial fishermen a huge catch of sockeye salmon this summer, while leaving their American counterparts almost empty handed. Commercial Read More »

  • NL MP Joanne Thompson named Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Coast Guard

    For the first time since 2008, a politician from Newfoundland and Labrador will head up the country’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Canadian Coast Guard. Read More »

  • Snow crab price talks have broken off, FFAW says

    Protest leader John Efford Jr. grabbed a megaphone Thursday to told the crowd that negotiations for a new crab price-setting formula had broken off ahead of Read More »

  • Nova Scotia lobster industry facing challenging season

    Seafood buyers are reporting high lobster mortality and poor quality, which a federal scientist says may be because lobsters are extra fragile this year in Canada’s largest Read More »

  • Attn Gillnet Fishermen: Gulf of Maine Gillnet Fishery Closure to Protect Harbor Porpoise WILL NOT be implemente​d tomorrow!

    Today NOAA Fisheries NMFS announced revisions to the Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan. Amendments include removal of the consequence closure strategy, including the Coastal Gulf of Maine, Read More »
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    Canadian iceberg hunter in search of ‘white gold’

    “It’s a very fine piece of ice,” he proclaims. It’s midday and Edward Kean, a Canadian fisherman who now scours the North Atlantic for icebergs that have Read More »

  • Federal Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo meets with Dwight Ball in St. John’s

    Premier Dwight Ball welcomed new Federal Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo to Newfoundland and Labrador on Monday, as the new federal and provincial governments continued to showcase a Read More »

  • Day at the Docks kicks off Thursday night – Hatteras, North Carolina

    Day at the Docks was started to celebrate the “Spirit of Hatteras” when the village recovered from Hurricane Isabel in 2003 as an intact community, anchored by Read More »
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    Alaska canned pink salmon purchased for food assistance programs

    Millions of pounds of Alaska’s 2019 harvest of pink salmon is now earmarked for child nutrition and related domestic food assistance programs, thanks to a U.S. Read More »

  • It was ‘going to turn ugly’ – Equalize P.E.I., N.L. tuna quotas, says MP Gerry Byrne

    Gerry Byrne says his province’s tuna quota should climb from 13 per cent to a quarter of the catch following a decision  earlier this spring by Read More »
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    New Regulations: Commercial troll salmon season

    The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in consultation with the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC), the State of Oregon, the State of Washington, and fishery representatives Read More »

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