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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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  • Share the Gulf Coalition to promote fair access to the red snapper fishery.

    The issue in front of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, the federal body charged with regulating red snapper, is what helped catalyze the group’s Read More »

  • A perfect storm threatens to sink the New Jersey Party Boat Industry

    For nearly four decades, Capt. Charles Eble sailed the Doris Mae IV out of Barnegat Light, taking anglers along the Jersey coast in search of fluke Read More »

  • Sockeye run at halfway point double 10-year average, over 20,000 a day crossing Bonneville Dam

    With summer Chinook adult spawner counts on track to achieve preseason return estimates, and sockeye salmon numbers looking even better than advertised, Oregon and Washington fisheries Read More »
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    Fishery Mismanagement?: Research suggests DFO worsened impact of salmon fishery crisis

    Unifor has released a new report that says artificially low catch limits over the past 25 years pushed the West Coast salmon fishing industry to the Read More »

  • What Wrecks Reveal

    From the paper by Penny McCall, – Amidst the hope required to going out fishing day after day, Findus was a portent, a ghost of the devastated Read More »
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    NMFS Lists Oceanic Whitetip Shark as Threatened Species

    On January 30, 2018, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a final rule listing the oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharinus lonigmanus) as a threatened species under Read More »
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    ‘Tell us why’: Monmouth Commissioners call for investigation into surge of whale deaths

    Monmouth County officials stood in the mist at Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park on Wednesday, where they gathered to call for an immediate stop to offshore wind Read More »

  • Federal law requiring almost a million salmon ignored at great expense to Bay-Delta ecosystem and fishing industry

    “Our salmon runs are essential to California’s natural heritage, to fishing families and to an industry that reaches from the fishing dock to your dinner table,” said Read More »

  • Reassessed: More than half a million gallons of oil spilled in Gulf near Lousisiana

    The U.S. Coast Guard has reassessed an oil spill that happened Oct. 13 (click here) near Venice Louisiana. While initial reports were thought to be at Read More »

  • Feds Add Fishing Restrictions for Atlantic Cod – will have a significant economic impact on some fishermen

    Regulators are closing areas where most of the cod catches have occurred over the last couple of years to protect the remaining stock. Most of those Read More »
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    No Crabs, No Scallops: Seafood Is Vanishing From Menus in U.S.

    Prices went “crazy,” says Mike Price, who co-owns the Greenwich Village restaurant, and so he yanked them off the menu. Over in Napa Valley, Phil Tessier, Read More »
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    Silver Bay Seafoods agrees to pay fine for illegal dumping in the Naknek River

    Sitka-based Silver Bay Seafoods earlier this month agreed to pay a fine of $467,469 for illegal dumping at its Naknek River facility in Bristol Bay. The Read More »
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    Maine Department of Marine Resources Launches Online Elver License Lottery Application

    Maine’s Department of Marine Resources is pleased to announce the launch of the online Elver License Lottery application, which is available to residents of Maine. Available Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 38′ Fiberglass Lobster/Herring CAT 3126B

    Specifications, information and 25 photo’s  click here  To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:30 Read More »

  • Program To Explore History Of Commercial Fishing In Door County

    The July 11 Gibraltar Talks program will focus on the interesting history of the commercial fishermen who ventured out into the waters of Green Bay from Read More »

  • FISH-NL claims victory with DFO measures to help inshore harvesters 

    The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is pleased with recent measures announced by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to help Read More »

  • It’s time to talk crab season projections – NPFMC to meet to approve catch limits, discuss management plan

    The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will meet in Anchorage from Oct. 5-11 to overview crab season projections, hear further discussions of halibut management, and decide Read More »

  • Placopecten’s New Rules Stir Up Economic Storm for Fishermen

    the resident – After filling up the gas tank and picking up a pound of fresh Placopecten magellanicus, or New England sea scallops, for dinner, a little Read More »
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    Macduff’s Biggest Newbuild – So Far

    This is Mark Lovie’s fourth Macduff trawler in a series that started with the wooden-hulled Venture, built as Endeavour II in 1993. Since then the steel-hulled Venture II in 2001, Venture Read More »
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    Maine Lobster Fishery Sues Monterey Bay Aquarium, Claims Attack on Maine Lobster Fishing Practices Is Defamatory

    Maine lobster businesses and industry trade associations today filed a federal lawsuit against the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation (the “Aquarium”) for making false and defamatory statements about Read More »

  • Climate change will shift marine predators’ habitat, study says – By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post

    More doom and gloom from a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) The top ocean predators in the North Pacific could lose as much Read More »

  • Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting in Philadelphia, PA October 7-9, 2014 – Listen online

    The public is invited to attend the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s meeting on October 7 – 9, 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The meeting will be held at the Courtyard Read More »
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    F/V Jamie Lynn sinking near the mouth of Shem Creek

    The Jamie Lynn shrimp boat is currently sinking, positioned southeast of the entrance of Shem Creek in front of the bank of the Old Village. On Read More »

  • American Dynasty Update. Power failure followed by an unexpected engine restart, Driving her right into HMCS Winnipeg

    A power failure followed by an unexpected engine restart aboard an American fishing trawler occurred moments before it rammed a Canadian navy frigate in Esquimalt Harbour, Read More »

  • MacKay announces $488 million for coast guard vessels – The vessels include search and rescue lifeboats, research and science vessels

    National Defence Minister Peter MacKay was in Halifax this morning to announce $488 million in funding for almost two dozen new vessels for the Canadian Coast Read More »

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