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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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    CARES Act relief funds for New Bedford fisheries topped $5 million

    In May 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced an allocation of $300 million for fisheries assistance. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Massachusetts received Read More »
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    “It has to be tested” – Massachusetts Lobsterman to test ropeless buoy equipment

    Sonar technology used is Australia for southern rock lobster commercial fishing will be tested in July, possibly in Cape Cod Bay, as a method to better Read More »
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    Commercially Caught Wild American Shrimp From Gulf of Mexico Remain Safe to Eat

    For the commercial wild-caught shrimp industry in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s business as usual. In spite of reports coming out of the Gulf of Mexico Read More »
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    Hero fishermen used tidal & weather information to find Galway paddleboarders

    The mother of one of the two missing paddleboarders dramatically rescued has hailed the hero fishermen who found them and said: “We are forever indebted.” Patrick Read More »

  • NZ fishing company Sanford fined $2.3m – dumped oily waste in waters off American Samoa.

    An Auckland-based commercial fishing company has been fined $1.9 million ($NZD2.3 million) after being found guilty in a US court of dumping oily waste in waters Read More »
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    Spring lobster season on P.E.I. delayed due to weather

    The Department of Fisheries and Oceans will decide Monday whether to open P.E.I.’s spring lobster fishery on Tuesday. Setting day was originally scheduled for Monday, but Read More »

  • Great Lakes Commercial fish netters getting more for less

    It’s no secret that I do not like commercial fishing. I don’t like it in the oceans where the greed of commercial netters and long-liners have Read More »

  • New Cod Restrictions Will Not Affect Rhode Island Fishermen

    Christopher Brown, president of the Rhode Island Commercial Fishermen’s Association, reassures none of these fishing restrictions will have a direct impact on Rhode Island fishermen. Read Read More »
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    Federal court rules fisheries officials didn’t do enough to protect right whales from lobster gear

    A federal court on Friday ruled in favor of environmental groups that had filed a lawsuit against the government and the Maine Lobstermen’s Association claiming federal Read More »

  • Coast Guard frees fishing boat from ice in Quicks Hole Passage

    A Coast Guard crew responded to a fishing vessel trapped in ice in Quicks Hole Passage, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Friday. At about 10 a.m., watchstanders at Read More »

  • Alexandra Morton Challenges Federal Fish Farm Licences in Court

    Biologist and wild salmon advocate Alexandra Morton headed back to court yesterday to push for stronger government oversight of the transfer of farmed fish into the Read More »
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    Drenched US documented its second-wettest May on record

    While the continental United States recorded its wettest 12-month period in recorded history this year, historic flooding and record-shattering rainfall amounts landed May 2019 as the Read More »

  • Kenai council gets an earful after biggest-ever “Alaskan Woodstock”, dipnet season

    According to the Peninsula Clarion, frustrated residents at a recent Kenai City Council meeting all seem to agree: Kenai River dipnetting season is becoming an unbearably Read More »

  • Cork fishermen to sue The Guardian over migrant workers article

    Two Cork Fishermen are suing The Guardian over an article published on its website in November. Lenny Hyde and Pat O’Mahony have taken a defamation case Read More »
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    DFO minister: No compromise on independence of inshore fishery

    Canada’s Minister of Fisheries and Oceans says there will be no backtracking on measures to preserve the independence of Atlantic Canada’s inshore fishery.”I’m not interested in Read More »

  • Editorial: Local fishing forum deserves to get NOAA’s attention

    So, you might think just about every avenue is being explored to help salvage at least something of a fishing year — or really, of the Read More »
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    Great Catch: Oregon’s fishing industry

    It’s a business like any other — and unlike any other — and for those who fish the Oregon coast, it’s all about pride in doing Read More »

  • On The Hot Seat! Dare GOP confronts N.C. GOP chair on shrimp vote

    In the wake of the N.C. Fisheries Commission’s approval of a petition putting greater limits on shrimp trawling, the Dare County GOP has written a letter Read More »

  • What It’s Like to Fish in the Shadow of a Nuclear Power Station

    A beach sandwiched between a nuclear power station, a baron wasteland of shingle, and the vast expanse of the English Channel probably isn’t where you’d expect Read More »

  • Must be tough for these guy’s when their progressive champions are on the “wrong” side! CLF: New rules could allow ‘full collapse’ of cod stocks

    STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE – Boston —While many Massachusetts elected officials have lobbied for less severe  reductions in fish catch limits than the cuts set to Read More »
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    Steady and sustainable cod fishery needed to supply demand

    Other than Icewater Seafoods, in Arnold’s Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador isn’t well positioned for large-scale cod processing. And Icewater president – Alberto Wareham – says a Read More »

  • Maine fisherman Jonathan McDaniel of Gorham on ‘Deadliest Catch’s’ Time Bandit

    Like many people, I am a fan of the show ‘Deadliest Catch’ the long-running Discovery Channel television show about crab fishing boats in Alaska. But just Read More »

  • Is the Norfolk Canyon the next Atlantic National Marine Sanctuary?

    For more than a year, the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center has been developing a case for making the canyon part of the sanctuary system. Read More »

  • Demystifying Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management

    Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) became a major initiative of resource managers around the world beginning in the 1990s.  Unlike traditional management approaches that focused solely on Read More »
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    Jeanette Russell lost her son at sea a year ago. Now she’s starting a coalition.

    Jeanette Russell is the mother of Marc Russell, who disappeared off the coast of Mary’s Harbour with crew mate Joey Jenkins aboard his fishing boat the Read More »

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