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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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    North Carolina Fisheries Association: Weekly Update for September 12, 2022

    Last week the US House Committee on Natural Resources marked up a bill on the Magnuson Act reauthorization. The late Congressman from Alaska, Don Young, was Read More »
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    Coast Guard medevacs injured fisherman 13 miles west of Grays Harbor

    The Coast Guard medically evacuated an injured fisherman 13 miles west of the Grays Harbor, Washington, entrance, Monday morning. A Coast Guard boat crew aboard a Read More »
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    Lobster firm to invest in Gouldsboro plant after closure of Connecticut facility

    A seafood distribution and processing firm says it plans to increase production at its plant in Gouldsboro after closing a shipping facility in Connecticut. Garbo Lobster, Read More »

  • Florida Supreme Court Upholds Net Ban

    Florida’s Supreme Court this week denied a petition by commercial fishermen to overturn the state’s Constitutional amendment banning gillnets. The ruling from the state’s highest court Read More »

  • Fishermen lukewarm about disaster relief

    Certain permit holders will be eligible for $32,500 in in the coming months. But some in the industry say the amount is a patch over a Read More »

  • Prince Edward Island’s 2017 tuna fishery is down to its final 11 fish

    The Department of Fisheries and Oceans reports that, as of Monday, there were 10 tags still remaining for Prince Edward Island’s share of the Canadian allocation, Read More »

  • Happy Birthday to the United States Coast Guard

    Founded by Alexander Hamilton as the Revenue Marine first, and later as the Revenue Cutter Service on 4 August 1790, it is the United States’ oldest Read More »

  • The Long Haul, Part 4 – Protected Seals Raise Many Questions

    In years past, seal hunters received a bounty of five dollars a nose to keep the population in check. Now, seals are federally protected, and their Read More »
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    Gulf Shrimpers seek shelter from approaching storm

    At the Brownsville Shrimp Basin Thursday morning, workers at the Zimco Marine unloading dock raced against the clock to unload frozen shrimp from trawlers and load Read More »

  • Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority hears proposal for fishery quota loans

    The program as discussed today would specifically allow low-interest loans for quota purchases by community-based nonprofits, municipalities, and community quota entities. Community development quota, or CDQ, Read More »
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    Rethinking the Ocean Factory Trawler

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  • Gov. Scott Requests Economic Injury Declaration for Impacted Commercial Oyster Fishery

    TALLAHASSEE –  Today, Governor Rick  Scott requested from the U.S. Small Business Administration an Economic Injury  Declaration for Franklin County as a result of impacts to Read More »
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    Sam Parisi – Unless we have the science compared to an independent survey we are in peril at NOAA hands

    I was reading an article in South Coast Today regarding the new director of NOAA Jon Hare who said quote, he is willing to talk to Read More »
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    The early shift: New Jersey People working while you’re still asleep

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    The Rise of Calamari, Fueled by Rhode Island’s Dirty Politics

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  • NMFS to cover all groundfish sector at-sea monitoring costs for fishing year 2014

    Today, NOAA Fisheries announced that the agency will cover observer and at-sea monitoring costs for groundfish sectors in 2014 to meet the requirements developed and recommended Read More »
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    The fishery is worth more than ever. If the fisheries were meant to save rural N.L., what gives?

    It’s 2022. It’s hard to believe, for a number of reasons. Time is flying by, and things inevitably change. But for the cod fishery in Newfoundland Read More »
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    LETTER: Standing up for our fishery

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    Hurricane Jose Expected to Bring High Surf to the Eastern Seaboard in the Upcoming Week; Tropical Storm Conditions Possible

    Jose, a Category 1 hurricane in the western Atlantic, will continue to produce dangerous high surf and rip currents as it moves parallel to the Eastern Seaboard Read More »

  • Coast Guard medevacs fisherman near Cold Bay, Alaska

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  • Mexican man gets life sentence for death of Coast Guard officer

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  • The House passes The Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Enforcement Act

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  • BP Partner Anadarko E-Mails Seen Showing Role in Doomed Well

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  • In the Atlantic salmon fight, Greenland proves a sticking point

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