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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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  • Feature from 1968 on Portuguese fishermen showing Friday Night in New Bedford – Free Admission!

    The Dock-U-Mentaries Film Series continues on Friday at 7 p.m. with “The Lonely Dorymen,” a 1968National Geographic program about the Portuguese fishermen who fished for cod Read More »

  • Electric lobster boats: Bringing future resiliency to energy infrastructure

    It’s called The Sea Cucumber. A prototype diesel electric hybrid fishing boat made by Glas Ocean Electric in Nova Scotia. If you plug it in, it’ll Read More »
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    Oysterman’s thread is a must read – ‘Brexit deal is almost the same as a no deal’

    The introduction of new checks and paperwork since the end of the Brexit transition period on December 31 has caused disruption to exports of fresh fish Read More »
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    North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission to decide shrimp trawling regulations

    The New Year will begin with a decision that could impact the livelihood of area commercial fishermen. The five advisory committees to the North Carolina Marine Read More »

  • Coast Guard searching for missing fisherman Gary Kettlehut, F/V No Bull near Egmont Key

    Gary Kettlehut, 55, was working for the company Fishbusterz and was aboard one of their commercial fishing boats  when he went missing Wednesday night. He was last seen Read More »

  • With More Scallops But Fewer Fishermen, Select Board Raises Bushel Limit For Commercial Fleet

    There are more adult scallops in Nantucket Harbor than at any time since 2012, according to the town’s Natural Resources Department. That year, the island’s commercial Read More »
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    Pot/Trap Fisheries Regulations to Help Save North Atlantic Right Whales Announced

    NOAA Fisheries and our partners are dedicated to conserving and rebuilding the North Atlantic right whale population, which is endangered, declining, and experiencing an ongoing Unusual Mortality Event. Entanglement in Read More »
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    92nd Annual Blessing of the Fleet is this Sunday

    This weekend, Seattle’s fishing fleet will be honored in the 92nd annual Blessing of Fleet to mark the start of the 2020 fishing season. The event, Read More »
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    N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission approves shrimping amendment plan

    Shrimpers will not be allowed to trawl in the crab sanctuaries, Bogue Sound or the Carolina Beach Yacht Basin, now that the state shrimp fishery management Read More »
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    Big claws: Good for lobster sex life, potentially fatal in the fishing season

    Between Arendal and Grimstad, researchers tagged 100 lobsters with acoustic transmitters. With the help of numerous stationary receivers, they were able to track the lobsters’ movements Read More »

  • Ninth Circuit Hears Steller Sea Lion Appeal – Unalaska Community Broadcasting – KUCB 89.7 FM – Channel 8

    For years and years, a legal battle has been raging over the endangered western stock of Steller sea lions. That battle finally made its way to the Read More »

  • Terrible weather conditions are blamed for slow start to lobster fishery in Fortune Bay

    Exceptional windy conditions resulted in most fishers only being able to haul their pots three or four times during each of the first two weeks of Read More »

  • Open Season: Black Sea Bass poaching problems persist in Buzzards Bay

    “The people we are catching are not fishermen, they are poachers,” said MEP Captain Pat Moran. “A fisherman fishes by the rules, respects the sea and Read More »

  • Ottawa breaching N.L.’s confidence in trade talks, says premier – N.L. and Ottawa at odds over fish processing requirements

    Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Kathy Dunderdale says Ottawa has been trying to cut side deals with other provinces to build support for trade talks with the Read More »

  • Isle of Man catch limit imposed after ‘fishing race’ concerns

    Starting on Tuesday, a daily 1,400kg (3,086lbs) limit will be in force for the next six weeks in order to tackle current “unsustainable” fishing rates. An Read More »

  • The Eastern Population Segment of Steller Sea Lions Will be Removed from the Endangered List

    The eastern population segment includes Steller sea lions from Cape Suckling south to the Channel Islands in California. As part of the delisting NOAA has created Read More »

  • South Pacific Tuna Corporation fined for illegally manning U.S. flagged vessels with foreign officers

    APRA HARBOR, Guam — Coast Guard Sector Guam has levied fines against the South Pacific Tuna Corporation for eight separate violations of Title 46 United States Read More »

  • New wind turbine blade debris discovered Sunday off Mass. coast, company says

    The discovery comes just days after the remaining piece of blade from a damaged offshore wind turbine fell into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday. Vineyard Wind Read More »
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    Strong fish landings at Peterhead Port

    Figures compiled by Peterhead Port Authority show that 89,256 tonnes of fish with a gross value of almost £96 million came over the quaysides prior to Read More »
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    Uncertain Future: Commercial shrimp season nears for “frustrated” Port Arthur shrimpers

    Port Arthur area shrimpers are facing an uncertain future even with the opening next week of the Gulf of Mexico commercial shrimp season for state and Read More »

  • Fishing Rights: Small Scale Fishermen walkout of meeting with ministry over rock lobster suspension

    Small-scale and near-shore fishers walked out of a meeting in Cape Town with the deputy director-general for Fisheries Siphokazi Ndudane yesterday, saying her explanations relating to Read More »

  • First U.S. Offshore Wind Plant Costs $17,600 Per Home Powered

    America’s first offshore wind power plant will cost about $17,600 dollars to build per home it will power. Three miles off the coast of Block Island, Read More »
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    Communities to kick off boat blessing ceremonies

    As temperatures warm up, the bayou communities of Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes are preparing to send their shrimpers, trawlers and fishermen out onto the Gulf waters. Read More »

  • Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Preferred Price List for January 21, 2015

    Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273  Click here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. We are Direct to the Read More »
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    Family loses livelihood, launches fundraiser to recover from shrimp boat fire

    Days after a fire sank two boats in the St. Johns River, the owner of the Triton II set up a GoFundMe page to help pay Read More »

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