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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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  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 42′ Bruno & Stillman lobster boat, 8-V-71 Detroit Diesel

    To see specifications, information and 15 photos Click here. To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:28 Read More »

  • BP Tries to Overturn Gulf Oil Spill Settlement – Is Anyone Surprised?

    BP’s massive 2010 Gulf oil spill virtually destroyed the Gulf of Mexico economy. Fisheries, tourist-related enterprises, and the businesses dependent on them went belly-up in the Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 64’x19′ Fiberglass Longliner, Price Reduced!

    To review specifications, information, with 15 photos, >click here< , To see all the boats in this series >click here< 11:47 Read More »
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    Individual transferable quota system hurting Tasmania’s fishing fleets

    “ITQs have caused a decrease in owner operators and a decrease in active vessels in the fleet,, “Separation of ITQ ownership from the fishing sector has Read More »

  • CLF Environmental Lawyers Attack Industry Lawyers on Closure Issues Using Research That Fails To Support Their Own Recommendations

    WASHINGTON — February 24, 2014 — The following was released by Andrew E. Minkiewicz and Anne Hawkins of the Fisheries Survival Fund : Last week, the lawyers at Read More »
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    Last of the Chesapeake Skipjacks

    Over the course of a Chesapeake Bay waterman’s life, big memories tend to swallow smaller ones. So when seventy-two-year-old Harold “Stoney” Whitelock looks back on his Read More »

  • Alleged poacher facing multiple charges

    BARNSTABLE — A West Yarmouth man accused of poaching thousands of oysters from beds in Dennis and Barnstable last summer also faces a long list of Read More »
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    DC Power Couple Threatens Maine Lobster

    Whenever someone promises two for the price of one, the savvy consumer is naturally suspicious. Should the same suspicion not extend to the newest transmogrification of Read More »

  • Scallop fishermen argue against shortening season on Cobscook Bay

    DENNYSVILLE, Maine — Patrick Keliher, Commissioner of the state Department of Marine Resources, came to listen to scallop fisherman on Tuesday afternoon. . Some of them Read More »

  • Conn. lobster die-off: no link found to pesticides

    Connecticut researchers found no pesticides in lobsters collected in Long Island Sound in late 2014, a new study has found, boosting evidence that warming water temperatures Read More »

  • Coast Guard rescues four fishermen near South Padre Island, vessel sinks

    Coast Guard crews rescued four fishermen from a sinking commercial fishing vessel 5 miles east of South Padre Island, Texas, Monday evening. At 6:20 p.m., the captain of Read More »

  • Tagged Bluefin Tuna Recaptured After Sixteen Years at Large – From 14 to over 1,200 pounds!

    Al Anderson, a charter boat captain out of Point Judith, Rhode Island, participates in the NOAA Fisheries Cooperative Tagging Program, which provides free tags to fishermen Read More »

  • FISH-NL calls on FFAW to come clean on details of marine escort fees; show compassion to members who owe back dues 

    The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is calling on the FFAW to come clean and reveal the “administrative fee” the union Read More »
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    ‘Looking at the years to come’: Pacific Seafood strategizes for the future

    After coming off a remarkably successful year in 2021, Oregon’s commercial fishing industry is working through new challenges in 2022 and preparing for what’s ahead in Read More »

  • Mayor Carolyn Kirk’s “bridge plan” bypassed key panels

    Mayor Carolyn Kirk’s “bridge plan” for modernizing and retooling America’s oldest fishing port was never presented for comment or criticism to the city’s own Fisheries Commission Read More »
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    Red tide and green slime: Florida faces epic statewide fight with algae

    We may smell it first, warned environmentalist Rae Ann Wessel. She was right. Along a wall of mangroves, the stench last week advertised of something to Read More »
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    Beverly fishermen throttle-up at annual Lobster Boat Races

    If Mike Malewicki seemed like he was in a rush, there’s a good reason why. The skipper of the Janie M. defended his title as the Read More »
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    Maryland seafood locale claps back at PETA in billboard feud before crab season: ‘Brought religion into it’

    Jimmy’s Famous Seafood, a seafood restaurant in Maryland, hit back after the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) launched a billboard near the restaurant in February Read More »
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    Fred Wahl Marine Construction receives $3.4 Million state grant to expand Reedsport facility and workforce

    A company that builds commercial fishing boats in Reedsport netted a $3.4 million grant from the state this month, positioning itself to expand its workforce by Read More »
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    Robert “RJ” Cericola, A well-respected member of the N.J. fishing community has passed away

    RJ Cericola lost his valiant battle with cancer on August 18, 2021.  A well-respected member of the fishing community, RJ was born in Point Pleasant Beach Read More »

  • Crab Legs worth fighting for! Two arrested when dispute over crab legs turns violent

    Seafood is quite the delicacy in some parts of the U.S., and some love it so much that they’re willing to fight and get arrested in Read More »
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    Video-Coast Guard medevacs ill fisherman from 115 miles off Provincetown

    A Coast Guard aircrew from Air Station Cape Cod medevaced a 24-year-old-man Sunday afternoon from the fishing vessel Athena, which was located approximately 115 miles east Read More »

  • Chinese investors eye Port Union fish plant as a seal processing plant 

    Venture capitalists who are looking to invest $90 million US in the province have their sights set on the former Ocean Choice International shrimp plant in Read More »

  • Commercial fisherman Jeffrey Thomas Clements of Oak Bluffs, Marthas Vineyard, has passed away

    Jeffrey Thomas Clements, 67, passed away on Friday, August 4, 2023, while out on his boat off State Beach, doing what he loved. Jeffrey was born Read More »
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    Wicked Tuna’s Tyler McLaughlin

    National Geographic’s show “Wicked Tuna” has captivated and entertained audiences who not only revel in some good ol’ reality television but are also interested in what Read More »

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