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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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  • Passmaquoddys, state reach tentative agreement on elver licenses

    AUGUSTA, Maine — State officials and representatives of the Passamaquoddy Tribe have reached a tentative agreement on how the tribe will distribute elver licenses and manage Read More »

  • End of the line?

    It could be overfishing. It could be global warming. It could be the seals. It could be a lot of things. In fact, there are perhaps Read More »
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    Ireland: Fishing’s struggle to stay afloat

    Three men and a woman best illustrate the state of the Irish fishing industry today. One quit the industry two years ago, another is old enough Read More »

  • BOEM (the ocean destruction agency) targets fishing impacts

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has complied ‘best management practices’ (BMPs) to reduce fishing impacts by offshore wind energy development in the Atlantic Ocean. Read More »

  • Fishing Vessel Engineering: An Easy Fix For Generator Caused Electrolysis – Ten photos

    When you run one of your generators do your L.E.D. indicator lights twinkle? Do your digital read outs jump around or other types of lights flicker? Read More »

  • Fishermen Outraged! ‘We have to buy our jobs back’

    The opposition has demanded the State Government press pause on controversial reforms to the commercial fishing industry, it claims will force fishers to “borrow money to buy shares to do the job Read More »
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    Government shutdown, if it continues, could cost Alaska’s lucrative Bering Sea fisheries

    Even if the shutdown does persist, the federal government will allow the Bering Sea fisheries to start as scheduled, with an initial opening for cod Jan. Read More »
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    Anti–wind farm petition takes off, nearing 250k signatures

    A petition drive that demands a halt on wind farm projects following whale deaths along the coast has collected more than 240,000 signatures so far. (As Read More »

  • As Our Climate Changes, We Must Base Our Policies in Sound Science – Richard Merrick, Chief Scientist for NMFS

    For some people, climate change is just a theoretical possibility. But ask fishermen, and many will tell you that climate change is well underway. Along the Read More »

  • Court open to upholding US fishing monitor rule even without ‘Chevron’ doctrine

    A U.S. appeals court on Monday appeared open to upholding a federal rule requiring commercial fishermen to fund a program to monitor for overfishing of herring Read More »

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    Forfeited: Seafood firm loses $20m vessel after trawling in protected area

    Seafood company Sanford Limited has lost a $20 million fishing vessel after it admitted trawling in a protected fishing area off the coast of Stewart Island. Read More »

  • Kodiak needs a crab restoration effort – LudgerDochtermann

    Toby Sullivan wrote a great piece on the early Kodiak crab fishery. A kick in the mouth with a reminder that the community of Kodiak was Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 49′ Novi Scalloper with Permits

    To review specifications, information, with 12 photos, >click here< , To see all the boats in this series >click here<  12:17 Read More »

  • Fisherman drowned after being dragged overboard by ‘chain weight’

    The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) concluded their fatal accident inquiry into the death of John Wilson who died almost three years ago. The Read More »
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    Management Plan Released for Atlantic Herring in Southwest Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy

    Atlantic herring is a vital species in Atlantic Canada. As one of the largest commercial fisheries in Atlantic Canada, the Southwest Nova Scotia / Bay of Fundy herring stock directly Read More »
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    Innovation in Survival

    In simplest terms, when deployed in the water, a life jacket gives the casualty time to survive and reduces time for location and recovery. Flotation is Read More »
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    UPDATE: 17th Coast Guard District to conduct maintenance on VHF radio system – anticipate intermittent service outages

    JUNEAU, Alaska – The 17th Coast Guard District is scheduled to conduct maintenance on its VHF radio system Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Due Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 74′ Steel Scalloper/Dragger, Cat 3412

    To review specifications, information, and 38 photos’, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here< 13:00 Read More »

  • New marketing efforts in Maine could benefit everyone in the industry by leading to increased demand, says Fisheries Minister Ron MacKinley.

    MacKinley said he thinks what is happening in Maine could lead to higher prices for Island lobster fishermen. “The more lobsters that we can move, the Read More »

  • Community of missing N.S. fishermen ‘broken’ – ‘It’s been really tough’

    Residents of a southwestern Nova Scotia community where five young fishermen were lost at sea are “broken” as they deal with the news that the search Read More »

  • Louisiana Oysters on the brink: ‘It’s not a decline; it’s zero population’

    Three years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, local oystermen and processors say Louisiana oysters are tough to come by this winter and the state’s $300 Read More »
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    Tensions rise ahead of net fishing ban on the Gippsland Lakes

    Last month, with a stroke of a legislative pen, Gary Leonard lost his livelihood. The Victorian Government enacted its election promise of banning commercial fishing of the Read More »

  • ‘Life-threatening’ storm to remain major hurricane before Florida landfall, NHC says

    Hurricane Milton remained a Category 5 storm in the Gulf of Mexico through Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. As of 5 a.m., Hurricane Milton was Read More »
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    Review of Atlantic halibut survey raises sustainability questions

    For more than two decades, Atlantic halibut fishermen have baited their hooks and dropped them to the ocean bottom off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland as part Read More »

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