Bristol Bay Set Netter Takes “Fisherman of the Year” at Pac Marine Expo

December 5, 2013 Pacific

Each year at the Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle, a contest is held determine the “Fisherman of the Year”, based on one’s prowess is some basic skills of the trade. This year the honors were once again conferred on a Bristol Bay fisherman. For the second time (not in a row), Portland’s Reid Ten Kley took top honors in the event. Ten Kley, whose family fishes the east side of Bristol Bay, tied knots and donned a survival suit faster than his fellow competitors. KDLG’s Dave Bendinger has more:@kdlg 14:59

"Fisherman of the Year" contest, Pac Marine Expo, Portland's Reid Ten Kley

One Response to Bristol Bay Set Netter Takes “Fisherman of the Year” at Pac Marine Expo

jj says:

December 6, 2013 at 9:46 pm

The full time fishermen are all out making a living when they have this contest so……

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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.

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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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