Man in stolen boat fires flares, tries to ram police vessel off Prince Rupert coast, RCMP say

June 19, 2025 Canada

A 25-year-old man has been arrested after what Mounties are calling “a dangerous” escapade on the water involving a stolen fishing boat Monday off the coast of Prince Rupert. RCMP allege the man tried to ram and evade a police vessel in the dark at night using a boat that had been reported stolen from Port Hardy a day earlier. Two RCMP boats responded and tried to intercept the stolen boat, but it didn’t stop, the RCMP alleged in a news release Thursday. Photos. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 16:21

25-year-old man, British Columbia, fires flares, RCMP, RCMP boats responded, stolen fishing boat, stolen from Port Hardy, tried to intercept, tries to ram police vessel

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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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