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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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    Impossible Choices: The Complicated Task of Saving Both Orca and Salmon

    Decades of politics and foot-dragging have stymied the recovery of threatened and endangered Chinook salmon, while an iconic population of killer whales that depends on them Read More »

  • Eight fishermen rescued after five days in lifeboat

    Eight fishermen who spent five days on a lifeboat after their vessel sank in the Atlantic Ocean have been rescued off the Brazilian coast. The skipper Read More »

  • NOAA To Enlist Commercial Fishing Boats To Help Gather Data For Stock Surveys

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced it will begin enlisting commercial fishing boats to help gather data for its often-controversial stock surveys – shifting that Read More »
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    Safetytech Accelerator collaborates with FISH Safety Foundation to explore safety technology in fishing

    Safetytech Accelerator has collaborated with FISH Safety Foundation to explore how technologies can improve the safety of the fishing industry. Fishing is one of the world’s Read More »
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    The Kitzhaber Plan – State compensation for gillnetters trickles down

    Money local commercial salmon fishermen will soon receive as compensation after reform policies pushed them off the Columbia River is “not nothing.” But it’s not quite Read More »
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    Fewer Pollock, cod found in southern Bering Sea survey

    Formal results of this year’s NOAA trawl survey of the southern Bering Sea won’t be announced until mid-September, but preliminary data shows a decided warming trend Read More »

  • BREAKING: Fisherman John Aldridge, a crewmember of the F/V Anna Mary has been rescued.

    Coast Guard Station Montauk confirms John Aldridge has been rescued and being transported to Station Cape Cod. Petty Officer Jetta Disco, a Coast Guard spokesperson, said Read More »
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    As Luke’s Lobster grows, its owner keeps an eye on sustainability

    “It all starts with the fishermen,” he said. “Without them, we don’t have the great product to sell in our restaurants or through our retail partners. Read More »

  • Plymouth, Ma: GREAT WHITE SHARK ATTACKS KAYAKERS! It begins…

    A great white shark attacked two kayakers off the Plymouth, Massachusetts, coast Wednesday evening at Manomet Point, authorities say. I am not one to say I Read More »
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    Five Wild Days Aboard a New England Squid Boat

    Corey Harris wasn’t concerned about the storm. The captain of Rhonda Denise, a 77-foot commercial trawler, he’d been stuck in port all week, as two nor’easters, Read More »

  • A tale of Herring at Digby Neck – No weirs on Digby Neck this year ‘No one gives a damn for these herring’

    Herring swim in the Bay of Fundy every spring with one thing on their mind –getting to the various spawning grounds and laying their eggs – Read More »
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    F/V Scandies Rose: NTSB announces probable cause of the sinking – Issues Report

    The National Transportation Safety Board unanimously approved the investigative team’s findings on the sunken vessel’s probable cause. On Dec. 31, 2019, the F/V Scandies Rose was Read More »

  • P.E.I. Lobster fishermen are going to some extreme lengths to keep the crustaceans cold

    Like the rest of P.E.I., the lobster industry, now into its fall season, has had to adjust to this week’s hot, sunny weather. Lobsters suffer in Read More »

  • Pollock Fleet Sees Spike in Squid Bycatch – Exceeding the Bycatch Quota

    While salmon is still the main species that pollock fishermen are trying to avoid taking as bycatch this summer, there’s another creature that’s been causing problems Read More »
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    F/V New Age: Fluke Run From Montauk Turns Into Close Encounter With Hypothermia

    Capt. Bill Carman was on a routine fluke run with Mitchell Lester of East Hampton and Mike Havens of Springs, all experienced fishermen, when the seas Read More »

  • Crab pots set to drop

    Spirits were high at the Crescent City Harbor as fishermen prepared crab pots and loaded gear onto boats Friday.  Del Norte’s commercial Dungeness fishery is scheduled Read More »

  • Gloucester Fresh campaign lands a big one!

    The city’s Gloucester Fresh seafood marketing efforts have landed the city a major commercial partner. The Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub group, with 105 restaurants across Read More »

  • U.S. Backs Away From Offshore Arctic Drilling

    On Friday, the Department of the Interior announced the cancellation of two potential lease sales off the Alaskan coast in the . The Bureau of Safety Read More »

  • NO DEAL Ottowa- Minimum Processing Requirements ‘off the table’ in CETA spat

    A dispute between the Newfoundland and Labrador government and Ottawa surrounding the Canadian European Union Comprehensive Trade Agreement (CETA) was reignited Tuesday, with the province saying Read More »
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    Spanish mackerel catch quota reduction ‘catastrophic’ for north Queensland fishers, industry says

    New quotas that will dramatically reduce the number of Spanish mackerel commercial fishers can catch will “devastate” the industry, according to north Queensland fishers. The Queensland Read More »

  • Fishery resource state at Newfoundlands Grand Bank assessed

    Researchers at Vigo Oceanographic Centre of the  are evaluating the state of exploitation of the fishery resources of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The research tasks Read More »

  • Ordinary men did the extraordinary 76 years ago on D-Day. On that day, they became heroes.

    Seventy-six years ago today, thousands of ordinary men did something truly extraordinary. They struck a mighty blow for freedom. They showed Adolf Hitler and the rest Read More »

  • Gang Green Extorting NMFS – Speed up sea turtle analysis – Or Pay Our Litigators.

    The Center for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network, Sea Turtle Conservancy and Oceana contend that shrimp nets in the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Atlantic Read More »

  • NOPC Action Alert: Contact Your Members of Congress!

    As the House of Representatives prepares to bring the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 to the floor for debate and an anticipated vote next week, a $33 billion Read More »
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    3 crew members rescued as Search and Rescue mission underway for fishing boat captain off Canso

    A search and rescue mission is underway about four kilometres southeast of Canso, N.S., to find the captain of a fishing vessel that ran aground on Read More »

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