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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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    The biggest storm “in a very long time” is headed toward the Bering Sea region and could strike the western Aleutian Islands by Friday, says the National Read More »
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    Fight to keep Snake River dams is not over

    Those who see breaching the dams as the best option to restore salmon populations and the endangered killer whales that feed on them, will be working Read More »

  • Sonar cable plans to disrupt fixed gear fishermen and lobstermen from just north of Boston to Seabrook, N.H

    Fixed gear fishermen and lobstermen from just north of Boston to Seabrook, N.H. will have to make way for a short time as a global technical Read More »

  • Ecojustice goes to court to force veterinary college to investigate fish disease complaint

    Ecojustice has filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court seeking a declaration that the College of Veterinarians of B.C. “erred in law and jurisdiction” by refusing Read More »
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    Maine considers fund for lobster fishermen/gillnetters hurt by whale rules

    Maine is by the far the most significant lobster fishing state in the country, and members of the state’s industry have warned they will suffer because Read More »

  • Fairhaven man sentenced for making hoax distress calls to U.S. Coast Guard

    A Fairhaven man was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with sending three false distress messages to the U.S. Coast Guard over Read More »

  • Feds say “damn the whales” in the Gulf of Maine

    Biden’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) proposes to build a huge amount of floating offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine. As required by law, Read More »

  • Nova Scotia fishermen win back right to operate as Local 4 of Maritime Fishermen’s Union

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  • Listen to the The Alaska Fisheries Report

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    4,000 wind chimes displayed in hopes of large catch in city hit by 2011 tsunami Great East Japan Earthquake

    The wind chimes have been hung at four commercial buildings facing onto Kesennuma Bay and that opened in July. At one of them called Mukaeru, a Read More »
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    Lake Erie commercial fishermen sell catch right off their boat

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    Fishermen’s Memorial Service ‘shows the story behind the memorial’

    Around 70 people who attended the annual Fishermen’s Memorial Service were held rapt by the words of local author and filmmaker Ron Gilson as he shared Read More »

  • Alaska Legislature approves seafood task force for sector in ‘crisis’

    The Alaska Legislature on Sunday approved creating a task force to make policy recommendations to help the beleaguered commercial fishing industry. The task force is modeled be Read More »

  • Using satellite imagery from Google Earth, Daniel Pauly and Associates Bust Ancient Persian Gulf Weir Fishermen! Now THAT’s Science!

    Ah. He’s a clever one! Large fish traps in the Persian Gulf could be catching up to six times more fish than what’s being officially reported, Read More »

  • Ørsted pulled out of NJ. What comes next for wind power at the Jersey Shore?

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  • New England Fishery Management Council meeting in Portland, Me. June 20 thru 22, 2017

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  • South Atlantic Council, NOAA science gets ripped! Another crooked closure of red snapper

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  • Rep. Antonio F.D. Cabral seeks $450,000 for SMAST project

    “SMAST is an innovative leader for fisheries research and I’m proud to have won state funds for SMAST to continue its independent research on groundfish populations,” Read More »
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    Coast Guard medevacs injured fisherman 50 miles east of Gloucester

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