Record number of schooners in this weekend’s Gloucester Schooner Festival – historic dory fishing schooner “Adventure” to race

August 30, 2013 National, New England

“This is a very exciting time for the Adventure and her supporters as she returns to her place among the historic tall ships” says Schooner Adventure Executive Director Joanne Souza. “She will be racing for the Mayor’s Cup on Sunday of Gloucester Schooner Festival, but in the near future, she will be sailing so supporters and visitors will be able to experience the life of a Gloucester fisherman at the beginning of the 21st century.” more@GDT 08:36

Schooners participate in the festival 1. Adirondack III 2. Adventure 3. Adventurer 4. American Eagle 5. Ardelle 6. Bald Eagle 7. Brilliant 8. Estrela 9. Fame 10. Green Dragon 11. Humble 12. Irena 13. Lewis Story 14. Light Reign 15. Liberty Clipper 16. Morning Light 17. Perception 18. Roseway 19. Sugar Babe 20. Thomas Lannon 21. Tillicum I 22. Tyrone 23. Virginia

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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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