Fresher trawler for Rawson

June 15, 2025 International, International News

Mar del Plata’s Contessi shipyard has launched Siempre Don Oscar, the yard’s 152nd newbuild, which hits the water as Argentinean fishing industry faces a number of challenges. A fresher trawler designed to target Argentine red shrimp and other species, Siempre Don Oscar has been built for Oscar Martella’s Alamar, a fishing company based in the Patagonian port of Rawson. In his speech during the launching ceremony, yard director Domingo Contessi criticised the government and touched on the serious crisis facing the fishing industry – including mentioning that President Javier Milei’s decision to allow Argentina to import used capital goods may include second-hand fishing vessels. Photos, video, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 16:44

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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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