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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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    Millions of fish and sinking boats: It was a record-breaking year for the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon fishery. The Western Alaska commercial fishery — which produces Read More »

  • Good Morning, John – An open letter to John Bullard, Dave Sullivan, Gloucester

    To NOAA Regional Administrator John Bullard: As a fellow MIT alumnus, I am baffled at your stubborn adherence to a fish monitoring plan that the most Read More »

  • Now this, THIS is exciting!!! Former Mayor Scott Lang forming watchdog group – Dr. Brian Rothschild slated to be executive director

    NEW BEDFORD — Former Mayor Scott Lang is taking aim at NOAA fisheries as he organizes a nonprofit to serve as a watchdog and a counterweight Read More »
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    Coast Guard rescues 4 from a life raft 69 miles west of St. Petersburg

    A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew rescued four survivors from a life raft Monday after their fishing vessel F/V Right Stuff sank Read More »

  • Pew response fails to address EU fishing sector concerns over misleading information

    It is disappointing that your response fails to address the issues that we have raised. We drew attention to the startling divergence between the (ICES) view Read More »
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    Northern Peninsula fisherman outraged after buyer backs out of deal

    A fisherman on the Northern Peninsula is outraged after his buyer backed out of a deal. Roland Genge says it cost him thousands of dollars. NTV’s Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for September 8, 2017

    Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here for older updates click here 16:07 Read More »

  • PETA – Serving fish at an aquarium would be like serving poodle burgers at a dog show

    As construction continues on OdySea Aquarium in Scottsdale, Arizona, PETA sent a letter to the project’s developer this morning with a simple request: Keep fish off Read More »
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    Seafood Billionaire Donates To Trump

    In the southwest corner of Alaska, next to a line of islands that point across the Bering Sea, sits Bristol Bay, home to one of the Read More »

  • Canada and Norway moves in seal case against EU

    Norway and Canada have requested the WTO to appoint the members of the dispute settlement panel established to consider EU’s ban on seal products. “For the Norwegian Read More »

  • Did you know Beaufort’s ‘Captain Billy’ North? A memorial Mass will honor him Wednesday

    Woody Collins knew William North for years. He walked the shrimp docks in Port Royal on Wednesday recalling the man the Lowcountry came to know as Read More »

  • McDonald’s getting their feet wet. The Dented Bucket

    McDonald’s will be launching, late this year, their $1 Fish McBites. I’m guessing the fish is  U.S. caught Alaskan pollock. This is the opposite of buy Read More »

  • Swan’s Island, Me: Islanders say lobster license waiting list unfair

    At age 31, with 15 years of lobster fishing experience under his belt, Zeke Freelove is betting he won’t be able to get a lobster fishing Read More »

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    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 »

  • Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission sinks Connecticut lobster industry

    “We have been beaten to death around the clock,” said Frate at his seafood store on Darien’s Post Road last week. Since the die-off that began in Read More »

  • Summer flounder stirs north-south climate change battle.

    Editor’s Note: “Climate at Your Doorstep” is an effort by The Daily Climate to highlight stories about climate change impacts happening now.  The summer flounder – Read More »
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    Investigation launched into capsize of Peterhead-based trawler

    An investigation is under way into the capsize of a Peterhead-based trawler, where one crew member died and three others were taken to hospital. The 78ft Read More »

  • A Climate of Change video series: Ocean Acidification in Alaska

    In the second chapter of our series of videos on the effects of climate change on fisheries, Island Institute media specialist Scott Sell explores the effects Read More »

  • Waiting for details on Gulf of St Lawrence redfish

    Canada’s Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Diane Lebouthillier last month announced a long-awaited decision on the reopening of the commercial redfish fishery in the Gulf of Read More »
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    Coast Guard rescues 3 from fishing vessel taking on water near Pascagoula, Miss.

    The Coast Guard rescued three fishermen from a vessel taking on water 8 miles south of Pascagoula, Mississippi, Wednesday. Coast Guard Sector Mobile watchstanders received notification Read More »
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    US Wind extends moratorium, Ocean City fishermen remain skeptical

    US Wind announced on Dec. 10 that it will further delay geophysical survey operations until Jan. 1 in an attempt to peacefully coexist with the fishing Read More »

  • UPDATED: GOP Kicks Off Effort To Roll Back Obama’s Monument Designations

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  • Chase the Ace winner helps son to follow his dream of becoming a fisherman!

    A Nova Scotia woman who won $1.7 million in a local lottery that triggered a province-wide “Chase the Ace” craze says her son has been able Read More »

  • Massachusetts Environmental Police busts Maine skipper for six hidden bags of scallops during offload

    A Maine captain faces prosecution after an inspector, who was checking the boat as scallops were offloaded Thursday in Gloucester, reported finding additional shellfish, worth more than $6,000, Read More »

  • UNCW professor studies declining flounder population in the New River Estuary of North Carolina

    Since 2005, professor of marine biology Fred Scharf along with his team of UNCW undergraduates and graduate students, have been studying the migration patterns and genetics Read More »

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