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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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  • Natural Resources Defense Council on the “Hot Seat” – Senate GOP wants green group’s tax exempt status revoked

    The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) wants federal officials to revoke an environmental group’s tax-exempt status over a political advertising campaign that the GOP group says Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for June 7, 2019

    From Our Executive Director- Glenn Skinner – At the special MFC meeting held June 6 the Marine Fisheries Commission approved their preferred management options for Amendment Read More »
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    Hebron oil platform tow-out halted en route to Grand Banks

    Just two days after its long-awaited tow out of Bull Arm, the Hebron oil platform’s journey to its drilling site in Newfoundland’s Grand Banks has been delayed. Read More »

  • Florida Lobster poachers busted for exceeding limit – FWC has a sustainable resource of thieves!

    FWC officers have been busy apprehending lobster poachers in South Florida! Here are two cases from the first week of lobster season: [email protected] Read More »

  • Family finds closure in remains from sunken boat, the Seattle-based F/V Arctic Rose

    Six days before Christmas, the doorbell rang at Kathy and David Meincke’s home. Two women were at the door, FBI agents, who pulled out their badges Read More »

  • With Florida Keys lobster season closing Monday, fishermen say it’s been a good harvest.

    One of the most successful Florida Keys lobster seasons in recent years comes to a close Monday. As the eight-month season winds down, the spring prices Read More »

  • Rival measures would restore alewives into the St. Croix

    The future of spawning alewife runs in the St. Croix River will likely be decided by state lawmakers next month as they evaluate rival bills aimed at Read More »
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    Crew airlifted from stuck fishing vessel Avalon Princess, taking on water near La Scie

    Crew on a fishing vessel stuck in sea ice off Newfoundland’s Baie Verte Peninsula have been airlifted off a ship that is taking on water, CBC News Read More »
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    Coast Guard medevacs man 230 miles north of Cold Bay, Alaska

    A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a man Sunday morning from the 143-foot fishing vessel American No.1, 230 miles north of Read More »

  • Suicide by job: Farmers, lumberjacks, fisherman top list

    Farmers, lumberjacks and fishermen kill themselves most often, according to a large new study of workers in the U.S. that showed enormous differences of suicide rates Read More »

  • Long Island Sound Lost Its Lobster Fishery. Is Cape Cod Bay Next?

    Catches in Cape Cod Bay were good for many years, and prices were good, too. But lobstermen here started worrying in the late 1990s when the Read More »
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    Aboard the Lake Erie fishing tug Lady Anna II (Part 2)

    At the end of Part 1 it was 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 29. The Lady Anna II was about five miles due south of Kingsville Read More »
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    Two bodies found near sunken fishing boat in Jersey

    Skipper Michael Michieli and crewmen Larry Simyunn and Jervis Baligat were onboard the L’Ecume II when it collided with a freight ferry on Thursday. A search Read More »

  • Regulating fishermen out of business – President Barack Obama’s 2010 National Ocean Policy executive order and his National Ocean Council

    In recent years, high fuel prices and stringent federal regulations have combined to take an especially heavy toll on charter boat owners and operators across the Read More »

  • Coast Guard, NOAA resolve two closed area fishing cases for $80,000

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently resolved two civil penalty cases with two separate fishing vessel owners who violated the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Read More »
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    Elver prices soar to new heights amid shortage, Asian demand, state expects a strong year.

    The price of baby eels in Maine is soaring to record highs at the start of a season in which buyers expect to pay more for Read More »

  • Climate change, acid oceans: NOAA research priorities

    The changing climate and chemistry of our oceans is definitely on radar screens of federal planet watchers. That’s the assurance of Kathryn Sullivan, director of the Read More »

  • Tampa Police searching for missing boat Captain

    At approximately 7:42 a.m. on Sunday, December 17, 2023, the Tampa Police Department received multiple reports of a shrimp boat being submerged underwater in the 2600 Read More »
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    Galveston oysterman suffers burns after boat catches on fire

    One man with burns was airlifted Monday night to a hospital in Galveston after a boat caught fire in the Seadrift City Harbor.,,“He was by himself Read More »
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    Giving up Chinook Is a Nice Idea but It Will Not Save the Orcas

    The Seattle Times published a heart-warming/heart-breaking story Wednesday about chef Renee Erickson, who recently announced that she will be yanking Chinook salmon from her restaurant menus Read More »
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    Coast Guard airlifts ailing fisherman 50 miles off Gloucester

    An USCG Air Station Cape Cod MH-60 Jayhawk helipcopter crew medevaced an ill 40-year-old fisherman off the fishing boat America, Sunday, approximately 50 miles east of Read More »

  • National Marine Fisheries Service’s Office of Law Enforcement returns to Unalaska/Dutch Harbor

    A federal fisheries agency office is reopening in Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, as soon as three enforcement officers are hired and trained, according to Kevin Heck, acting deputy Read More »

  • FFAW- Premier’s approval of OCI exemptions signs away millions in rural economic development

    ST. JOHN’S, June 21, 2017 – FFAW-Unifor is shocked and deeply disappointed in the provincial government’s decision to issue further exemptions to Ocean Choice International (OCI), Read More »

  • Entangled North Atlantic right whale prompts fishing closure in Gulf of St. Lawrence

    Fisheries and Oceans Canada has temporarily shut down part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to non-tended, fixed-gear fishing after an endangered North Atlantic right whale Read More »
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    ‘Greedy Poachers’ Face Stiffer Penalties Under New Law Drafted by San Diego Assemblywoman

    A bill authored by a San Diego lawmaker that cracks down on illegal poaching in marine protected areas by commercial fishing operators has been signed into Read More »

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