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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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  • Corporate Menhaden Harvesting Off Coast Raises Concerns For Local Sport fishermen

    Dead fish washing up on Ocean City beaches, a reduced inshore recreational fishery and a diminished stock of the most important species in the ecological food Read More »

  • Alaska state senator proposes bounty on sea otters

    Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, sees the furry-faced critters as a growing threat to shellfish beds, particularly in southeast Alaska, where he is from. On Wednesday, he Read More »
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    50th Boat Docking Competition makes big splash in Crisfield

    “It’s a good ole down home fun Sunday afternoon, end of the summer activity,” Waterman Kevin Marshall said. In Crisfield, that tradition is known as the Read More »
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    Newlyn: Grimmy Mike RIP.

    There are, or rather were, two well-known skippers called Mike in Newlyn, both referred to by their ports of origin, Milford Mike and Grimmy Mike. Whilst Read More »

  • Gloucester’s Angela Sanfilippo, A Fisherman’s Wife, named to Seafood Hall of Fame

    Angela Sanfilippo has spent this week, just as she did last year, helping plan the annual foray by the city and its fishing community into Sunday’s Read More »

  • F/V Sea Angel catches fire at Providence scrap yard

    Firefighters were called to a report of an intense fire on the  Sea Angel out of New York shortly after 11 a.m. The boat was at Read More »

  • State to San Diego fishermen: Drop dead

    Over 100 people gathered in Pacific Beach on March 20, for the release of data from a five-year, $4 million study of the state’s South Coast Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for May 5, 2017

    Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 16:25 Read More »
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    Massachusetts state regulators reject plan to use ropeless lobster traps

    The proposal, submitted by a group of lobstermen organized under the name “Pioneers for a Thoughtful Coexistence,” asked regulators to allow them to set as many Read More »
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    Governor Mills Announces Cost Relief for Maine’s Commercial Fishermen and Aquaculturists

    The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) will use $8.3 million in Federal funding to reimburse resident commercial fishermen, dealers, processors, and aquaculturists for the cost Read More »
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    Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 76′ Steel Dragger, Detroit 12-V-71, with federal/state permits

    Specifications, information and 15 photos >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >Click here< 13:57 Read More »
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    UPDATED: Blockage removed from Skinners Pond harbour entrance

    An excavator spent most of the day Saturday on the south block of the Skinners Pond Harbour breakwater, scooping seaweed out of the port’s entrance. That’s Read More »
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    Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 75’ Blount Steel Scalloper $275,000 LAGC Permit with Scallop Quota Available

    To view specifications, information and 34 photos >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >click here<14:44 Read More »

  • N.C Division of Marine Fisheries plans survey of commercial fishermen

    Commercial fishermen who fish in the Atlantic Ocean off of North Carolina may receive a questionnaire in the mail or by phone call in the coming Read More »

  • Chris Oliver Appointed to Lead NOAA Fisheries

    Today, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, with concurrence from the White House, named Chris Oliver Assistant Administrator for NOAA Fisheries. The Texas native assumed his new position Read More »
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    D.C. court rules fisheries remain closed to help right whales

    Thursday, a federal district judge ruled two lobster fisheries can remain closed to protect the lives of right whales moving through the area. The case began Read More »
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    Why Lennox Island First Nation is launching a treaty fishery without federal approval

    Prince Edward Island’s Lennox Island First Nation is set to launch its first moderate livelihood fishery, or treaty fishery on Saturday. The fishery is not authorized Read More »
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    17 tons of dead fish cleared from beaches due to red tide

    One Florida county has dumped more than 17 tons (15,420 kilograms) of dead fish collected since red tide algae crept up from South Florida into Tampa Read More »

  • North shore town grieving following fisherman’s death – a father, a step-father and a grandfather.

    The loss of a fisherman, and by reports an outstanding community person, has left the people of Gillams grieving. Mayor Joy Burt said the town was Read More »

  • Adak’s Seafood Processing Equipment Sold as Unit to City of Adak and the Adak Community Development Corporation

    The equipment from Adak’s fish processing plant was auctioned off in one piece Tuesday morning. The City of Adak and the Adak Community Development Corporation jointly Read More »
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    2022 Copper River Salmon Season Launches on May 16th

    It’s official. Alaska’s Copper River commercial salmon season will begin on Monday, May 16th, when the region’s commercial fishermen will be allowed to set their nets for Read More »

  • NOAA backs off forced worker furloughs

    The four-day work furloughs that had been in the immediate future for the 200 employees at the Northeast regional offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Read More »

  • FISH-NL: Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc missing boat on problems plaguing industry

    The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is outraged with an attack by the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans on the Read More »

  • Process underway now to plan ahead for upcoming lobster seasons

     If things go as planned, lobster fishermen in southwestern Nova Scotia won’t find themselves wondering at the 11th hour whether there will be any changes to Read More »
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    Newport News captain back from voyage delivering supplies to Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian

    Buck Ford guided his scallop boat, the Ocean Fox, to the Bahamas to drop off supplies and help desperate people in need after Hurricane Dorian slammed Read More »

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