‘It’s a tough industry’: Fishermen learn lifesaving skills with safety course

June 22, 2025 New England

For Maine fishermen, the list of things that could go wrong is far from short. That’s why lifelong sailor John McMillan of McMillan Offshore Survival Training tries to prepare his students for what they are most likely to encounter. “The emergencies would be abandon ship, man overboard, firefighting, and flooding,” he said, describing the curriculum of his fishing vessel drill conductor course.The aim of the class is not just to teach how to manage a crisis, but to train others to do so as well. Video, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 11:49

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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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