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NPFMC Reaches Decisions on Catch Sharing, Observers and Freezer Longliners http://fnonlinenews.blogspot.com/2012/11/npfmc-reaches-decisions-on-catch.html

Symposium Spotlights Challenges Related to Decline in Salmon Runs http://fnonlinenews.blogspot.com/2012/11/symposium-spotlights-challenges-related.html

Final peer review report issued on Bristol Bay watershed assessment http://fnonlinenews.blogspot.com/2012/11/final-peer-review-report-issued-on.html

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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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Ocean Resource Privatization

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

Impact of Shrimp Quota Cuts Felt in Twillingate: Mayor

Responses from Third Congressional Candidates on Fishery Issues

Another Stab in the Back

Latest BBSRI Forecast Puts the Bristol Bay Sockeye Run at 38-Million

Maine Lawmaker/Lobsterman and Sternman ‘lucky to be alive’ after a “giant rogue wave” from Lee flips lobster boat

Fisheries nations set to discuss bluefin tuna

Thanks for the support

Auction scheduled for lease rights for wind farm, Fishermen seeking to block

Salmon markets face lower supplies

Fishing industry says no to net pen finfish

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UMaine keeps wind project details secret – proposal will shed light on what consumers can expect to pay

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Coast Guard medevacs fisherman near Cold Bay, Alaska

Report detailing enforcement abuses barred from fisherman’s trial

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Fisherman Joseph Landry found guilty of manslaughter in Phillip Boudreau ‘murder for lobster’ trial

Ready for this? Striper caught in Britain! A FISH native to North America has shocked British anglers

‘Tantamount to theft’: WA fishers sound off about government rock lobster intervention

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