A West Yarmouth resident complained. Now lobsterman ordered to stop sales from his home.

March 31, 2025 New England

Jon Tolley has been selling fresh lobsters from his home in West Yarmouth since 1975, and his father did the same for nearly 30 years before that from the same house. Now he has been told to stop. “I’m 66 and I have been a fisherman my whole life,” Tolley said. He fishes out of Sesuit Harbor in Dennis. “Everyone knows I sell lobsters,” he said. Yarmouth Building Commissioner Mark Grylls has ordered Tolley to stop selling his lobsters from his home at 23 Iroquois Blvd. in West Yarmouth because retail sales in a residential zone are not allowed under zoning regulations. “The town is trying to say that no one has sold lobsters in the history of the town,” Tolley said, and recalled his father and his grandfather, who sold fish from his home in Yarmouth Port from 1930 to 1972. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 08:50

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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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