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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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    “Marine skin” wearable technology tracks underwater creatures

    Wearables are normally connected devices like smartwatches or shirts that people wear. Researchers are expanding wearables to cover underwater creatures as well with a new wearable Read More »

  • Speaking up for small-scale fisheries, Menakhem Ben-Yami

    The considerable social and economical role of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has long been recognised. They contribute significantly to food security, economic growth and development, and employment Read More »

  • BURT PARKER, CHRIS PETERSON, AND DENNIS RYDMAN: NOAA must change Pacific whiting quotas to benefit small fishermen

    The first inconvenient truth is that the allocation was purely political and was made primarily to gain support of those who wanted to retire from the fishery Read More »

  • Burglars nabbed during out of season shrimping roust in Terrebonne Parish

    Enforcement agents with the Fisheries busted three alleged thieves last weekend on their way back from writing up commercial shrimpers accused of fishing in a closed Read More »

  • Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Proposed Management Measures for the 2013 Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Recreation​al Fisheries

    Based on recommendations of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, NOAA Fisheries is proposing to increase the overall catch limits for the 2013 and 2014 black sea Read More »

  • Video – Fishermen upset after West Coast sardine season halted

    Sal Mineo casts his nets four to five hours out from Monterey’s Fisherman’s Wharf. But the commercial season has been declared over, two months early this Read More »
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    The cod are coming back to Newfoundland — and they’re eating the shrimp that had taken over

    Theodore Genge has a big beautiful new dragger that’ll be ready to head for “the Labrador” as soon as the sea ice loosens its grip on Read More »
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    ‘It’s all about the people’ Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante said about her run

    She’s a Gloucester native. Her parents came from immigrant families. She’s the only child of her father, Joseph, who worked as a fisherman until an injury Read More »

  • N.S. committee to work on system for tracking escaped farmed salmon

    Nova Scotia now has a committee to develop a system to track escaped farmed salmon. “This is a first step where government, industry and wild Atlantic Read More »

  • Trump’s Regulatory Freeze Throws US Fishing Industry Into Chaos  

    President Donald Trump’s regulatory freeze has injected chaos and uncertainty into a number of lucrative American fisheries, raising the risk of a delayed start to the Read More »

  • Are You Confident in NOAA/NMFS Trawl Surveys?

    Are you confident in these government agency’s suedo scientific trawl surveys? At 2:05.00 Russ Brown, Deputy Science and Resource Director of the Northeast Regional Science Center Read More »

  • Alaska’s Commercial salmon harvest expected to be leaner this summer

    State biologists are forecasting a much leaner commercial salmon fishing season in Alaska this summer. Last year, fishermen caught 268 million salmon, according to the Alaska Read More »

  • Access to Information Act Docs: Federal fisheries office in Comox on chopping block for more than a year

    Critics of the government’s plan to cut $100 million from the ministry over three years say the elimination of an administrative position and the movement of Read More »

  • Michigan Commercial Fishery Under Radar

    Actually, there are two different commercial fisheries in Michigan, made up of tribal fishermen and state-licensed fishermen. Tribal commercial fishermen operate under the authority of treaties Read More »

  • Fisherynation Editorial – The Politcal Purging of Dr. Brian Rothschild. What is the Real Reason?

    Dr. Brian Rothschild a world-renown fisheries researcher and author, Dean Emeritus of Marine Fisheries Institute, has been removed from his co-directorship of the Institute which he Read More »

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    Fishermen frustrated as Placentia lift bridge leaves boats stuck in harbour

    The $50-million Sir Ambrose Shea Lift Bridge in Placentia works great — if you drive a car or a truck. The current problem is a cable Read More »
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    Fisheries scientist takes the spotlight in Fishing Heritage Center’s ‘A Day in the Life’ series

    The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center’s A Day in the Life speaker series continues tonight, March 15, with SMAST fisheries scientist Crista Bank. Beginning at 7 Read More »
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    Consultation lacking on decision to reactivate licenses for Indigenous communities

    The reactivation of dormant lobster fishing licences by the federal government has prompted a terse statement from the P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association (PEIFA) and the Maritime Fishermen’s Read More »

  • Britain’s fishing industry voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU – now it feels ‘betrayed’ by May’s Brexit proposals

    Britain’s £1-billion fishing industry, which voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU, says it feels “betrayed” by the current course of Brexit negotiations. A poll before the Read More »
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    Investor confidence shaken by surf clam controversy: Fisheries Council of Canada

    The Fisheries Council of Canada says the Trudeau government’s decision to seize nearly $25 million in surf clam quota from one company and give it to Read More »

  • Fluke Fight. New Jersey fights New York’s efforts to take summer flounder

    New Jersey fluke fishermen claim New York is trying to take their fish. The border war of sorts has been going on for several years but Read More »

  • Atlantic Highly Migratory Species: Swordfish Landings Update Through September 30, 2013 Sharks through October 18, 2013.

    Please see the attached swordfish landings update as of September 30, 2013.  For previous swordfish landings updates, click here    Shark Landings Update Through October 18, 2013 click here   16:53 Read More »

  • Billionaire Penny Pritzker, daughter of the co-founder of the Hyatt hotel chain and a real estate investor, pick for Commerce Secretary.

    washingtonpost.com – President Obama named two long-term aides to his Cabinet on Thursday, rounding out the list of senior advisers who will help him lead during Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Newsletter/Update for November 19, 2021

    Shrimp FMP, Amendment 2:, The MFC meeting in Emerald Isle started out with a public comment period on Wednesday evening that lasted about 2 hours. The Read More »

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