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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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    Closing out the seventh season, ‘Wicked Tuna’ celebrating 100th episode

    The hit National Geographic reality series “Wicked Tuna” is going to close out its seventh season with its 100th episode Sunday night. When producers first came Read More »

  • Busy readying boats at Digby wharf

    LFA 35 lobster season opens Wednesday in upper Bay of Fundy Area lobster fishermen are busy at Digby’s wharf today, loading traps in preparation for the Read More »

  • Poor Ocean Conditions Hit West Coast Fisheries Hard

    United States commercial fisheries are doing fine overall, but fishermen on the West Coast are hurting.  An 2015 annual report out Wednesday from the National Oceanic Read More »

  • It’s not overfishing – The stock is mismanaged and mismanaging still occurring.

    “Overfishing” or “overfished” are terms used when, for any reason, the stock level of a species of fish is not at a sustainable level. It doesn’t matter Read More »

  • Coast Guard capture images of daily operations in support of Hurricane Harvey

    A recently rescued Texas resident overlooks the tarmac of Coast Guard Air Station Houston, Aug. 27, 2017. The Coast Guard partners with local Emergency Operations Centers Read More »
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    North Atlantic right whales at Risk – Offshore wind farms bring a lot of unknowns

    The race is on to get offshore wind farms built off the U.S. East Coast, and North Carolina is one of the leading states with three Read More »
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    Trade: Why new lobster markets are needed to protect 450 jobs in our region after Brexit

    New markets for the lucrative £35m lobster fishing industry in Holderness are to be investigated to help protect 450 jobs after Brexit. The local lobster fishery Read More »
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    LETTER: Clam fishermen put forth proposal that protects the resource

    Last week, the New England Fishery Management Council voted to kick Massachusetts surf clam fishermen off of 80 percent of our historic Nantucket Shoals fishing grounds. Read More »

  • In dip net drama, there’s more than one side to the story

    Too many Kenai River dip-netters are slobs, pigs, miscreants, call them what you want. There is no debating this. The evidence is obvious to anyone who Read More »
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    Project Salmon Claus delivers Christmas to children along the Columbia River

    For 11 years, Officer Jerrod Daniel has delivered gifts to children living at tribal fishing sites along the Columbia River. For some children there, Salmon Claus Read More »

  • Maine’s most fertile scalloping ground to close on Sunday

    Fishing regulators are shutting down Maine’s most productive scallop fishing grounds for the season to protect the valuable shellfish. Cobscook Bay is the most important scalloping Read More »

  • Who knew? Rhode Island is King of squid; More pounds are brought to shore than any other seafood

    Squid is to Rhode Island what lobster is to Maine; cod is to Massachusetts. “Fifteen years ago, you didn’t see calamari on the menu,” says Glenn Read More »

  • The Coastal Fishing Industry Grant Program – After Hurricane Sandy, fishing businesses get more help

    The Coastal Fishing Industry Grant Program, announced May 20 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office, was created with $20 million in federal funding. According to the governor’s Read More »

  • CF/V Gale Force grounded by storm leaking fuel onto Comox beach

    “All of us, as hospital employees, have been watching oil and gas leak into the ocean on high tide every day, a big rainbow,” he says. Read More »
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    Video: Fishing Boat Hits Rocks In Manasquan Inlet And Sinks

    Around 10:40 p.m. last night, a fishing vessel reported that they were taking on water to the USCG Manasquan Inlet station. Initial reports said they had Read More »
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    Acy Cooper: Don’t let the EPA hurt Gulf fishermen with offshore fish farming facilitys

    I’ve been fishing and shrimping in the Gulf of Mexico since I was 15 years old–for over forty years now. As my father and grandfather would Read More »

  • Sweden has until July 31 for scientific justification claiming that North American lobster is invasive

    European Union scientists have given Sweden until July 31 to address U.S. and Canadian objections to Sweden’s claims that North American lobster is an invasive species Read More »

  • Fish and Ocean Grabbing: The Case of Commercial Fisheries – prepared by Seth Macinko and Brett Tolley

    On April 8, 2009, a story in the New York Times quoted the administrator of NOAA (the federal agency in charge of managing OUR oceans) as Read More »

  • Loophole allows illegal fishing harvests

    A rowboat, kayak or inflatable raft should not classify as a licensed commercial fishing boat, say state fishery regulators. Current state laws on qualifying for certain Read More »
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    Why Offshore Wind Farms Face Lawsuits – The American Coalition for Ocean Protection

    Nantucket residents have filed a landmark lawsuit over federal approval of Vineyard Wind, the first industrial scale offshore wind project in the U.S. Federal law protects existing ocean Read More »
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    Don Cuddy: At the fish auction, you need a translator

    A sow jig hake, a lemon sole Georges or a pee wee channel anyone? Now that is some real New Bedford fish auction talk. Allow me Read More »

  • The Bunker Resurgence: The Good News Beyond Recent Fish Kills

    According to Megan Ware, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission in Arlington, Virginia, “Results of the 2015 stock assessment indicate that Read More »
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    Newfoundland fishermen featured in Xbox Canada series celebrating new game launch

    What happens when you pit a crew of Newfoundland fishermen against a crew of Xbox gamers is something the world will find out when an online Read More »

  • FISH-NL – Letter to Labour Board requesting the Board proceed immediately with a vote of inshore harvesters

    FISH-NL e-mailed the following letter Tuesday, Aug. 15th, to David Conway, the new chair of the NL Labour Relations Board, requesting the Board proceed immediately with Read More »

  • Shelton Barlow – Atlantic Marine Industries Hall of Fame – 2014 Mariner of the Year

    All of his work with and for fishermen earned Barlow entry this year into the Atlantic Marine Industries Hall of Fame as 2014 mariner of the Read More »

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