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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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    Southampton Trustees Win Appeal Against Brookhaven Baymen’s Association

    The Southampton Town Trustees were handed a victory in their long fight against the Brookhaven Baymen’s Association, which fought against Southampton’s rules requiring fishermen to be Read More »
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    A Funeral of fisherman who died off Wexford coast takes place

    Fisherman Willie Whelan, who was missing for almost three weeks after his trawler sank early this month, has been buried in Co Wexford. Funeral mass for Read More »
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    4 years later, the 4 large fish farms planned for Maine haven’t started construction

    This year will be remembered in Maine, at least in part, as when interest in developing four large-scale fish farms on the state’s eastern coastline continued Read More »

  • Fishing; More Protection for Big Ones

    Many popular measures to combat overfishing help conserve mostly small juvenile fish. The results from a set of international studies may now revolutionize fishing regulations. Read Read More »

  • Your Seafreeze Ltd. PRICE LIST for August 8, 2013 has arrived – pssst! Haddock fillet’s (fas, skin off) priced to move!!!

    Below is your Preferred PRICE LIST for August 8, 2013, from Seafreeze Ltd… where “the only thing we treat our fish with is respect.” Link Call Ken Read More »
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    Commercial Dungeness Crab Season in Northern California Delayed Due to Crab Quality Testing

    Due to poor crab meat quality test results conducted at the beginning of November, the Director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has Read More »

  • Greenland killer whale butchering in photo posted on Facebook

    Inuit in eastern Greenland have been hunting more killer whales as climate change leaves the area free of ice longer, says a Dane who recently posted Read More »
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    Safety failings on fishing trawler Aquarius led to fisherman’s death

    An investigation has revealed that the twin rig trawler, Aquarius was “a poorly run vessel”, issued with 137 deficiencies in the years prior to the death of Read More »

  • The Boys are Back! ‘Deadliest Catch’ season preview

    Lets start it off with a little Drop Kick Murphy song! Tonight, Deadliest Catch returns for its ninth season on Discovery, and there is top-notch drama even Read More »

  • ‘Adopted’ baby lobsters released in Shediac Bay

    Thousands of baby lobsters have a new home near Shediac, thanks to an adoption program designed to sustain the species and the industry. Lobster larvae have Read More »

  • Brexit Allows Us To Solve This Haddock Conservation Problem By Leaving The CFP

    It would be terribly wrong to compare the European Union to any of the mid-20th century unpleasantnesses in Europe like fascism and the rise of the Read More »

  • Fishing quotas cut for yellow perch, pickerel

    Commercial fishermen on Lake Erie have had their quota for this year reduced. The Lake Erie Committee announced the total allowable catch for 2013 on Thursday. Read More »
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    Coronavirus: Crew screening, enhanced cleaning part of P.E.I. lobster season launch Friday

    The season was delayed two weeks by the COVID-19 pandemic. That delay was partly in the hopes that depressed markets would recover somewhat, and partly to Read More »
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    UPDATED 0800: National Hurricane Center – Hurricane Nate Public Advisory

    At 700 AM CDT , the center of Hurricane Nate was located near latitude 25.7 North, longitude 88.0 West. Nate is moving toward the north-northwest near Read More »

  • Gulf Seafood Institute Testifies Before Two Influential Government Organizations Governing Gulf Waters

    The Gulf Seafood Institute (GSI), a four-month old non-profit organization comprised of Gulf seafood leaders from all five Gulf States, had a busy week of testifying Read More »

  • Prince William Sound harvest tops one million fish

    Commercial harvests of red salmon reached 378,000 fish in the Copper River drift district through June 20, as the run and harvest continued to be below Read More »
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    Shorefire fisherman Mark Rochfort feeds Christmas Island with a rod and a reel

    For the past 25 years, commercial fisherman Mark Rochfort has navigated open sea off Flying Fish Cove. His company Shorefire has operated since 1994,,, Rochfort, who Read More »

  • Video Presentation – Fishers Forum: Debunking Fishery Myths from the WPRFMC

    Learn what’s fact and fiction in Hawaii’s fisheries: longlines (Jim Cook), lay net (Frank Farm), aquarium fish collecting (Matthew Ross) and SCUBA spearfishing (Makani Christensen). Watch Read More »

  • I am disgusted.

    On May 1st, the allocation for cod will be cut by as much as 78% , and drastic cuts to yellow tail flounder and other species, Read More »
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    Petition: More Time Needed to Review 1st NJ Offshore Wind Facility

    Only 45 days were provided to the public to review a massive 1400+ page Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on “Ocean Wind 1,” Ørsted & PSE&G’s Read More »

  • UPDATED: Shrimp fishery reprieve? Industry proposal would avoid cuts this year

    The offshore and inshore shrimp fleets have unanimously approved a plan that would see no cuts to shrimp quotas in fishing areas off the coast of Read More »

  • Conservative Cape Cod scientist announces 2nd run for Congress, hoping to challenge Keating

    A Brown University biology professor calling for tighter border security and less government regulation is taking his second run at the U.S. House of Representatives, announcing Read More »
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    Gulf of Mexico Shrimp harvest reaches the lowest level recorded since October 2002

    Commercial shrimp harvest reached 10.4 million pounds in the Gulf of Mexico for October 2018, the lowest reported for any October in the records maintained by Read More »

  • Then there’s this Eco nut post on Talking Fish

    The New England Fishery Management Council won’t take any effective management actions to stop overfishing on Atlantic cod. So, as they preside over the collapse of Read More »

  • High chinook return projected in 2014 – Largest troll quota since abundance-based management began in the late 1990s

    High 2013 salmon returns and high escapement projections for non-Alaska rivers are working in the favor of Southeast Alaska commercial and sport fishermen. King salmon abundance Read More »

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