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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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  • Cattle Call! Commercial fishing families sought for potential series

    A Los Angeles-based production company is finalizing a list of families it plans to feature in a documentary series for a major cable network that is Read More »
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    Maine: New halibut rules aim to keep fishery open

    The Maine Department of Marine Resources has reminded harvesters with an Atlantic halibut endorsement of new state regulations designed to keep the state compliant with federal Read More »
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    Fishermen Land $20 Million in Dungeness Crab in Crescent City, $51.1 million statewide

    It’s not quite as high as the $40 million in crab the Crescent City Harbormaster reported Tuesday, but it’s a significant improvement from last year when Read More »

  • Scientists say new fisheries law “guts” protection for habitat

    OTTAWA — Three of Canada’s leading fish scientists say Canada’s rewritten Fisheries Act protect the fish species that people eat, while dropping protection for huge numbers Read More »

  • Your Government’s Gold King Whitewash

    When a private citizen or company violates rules, misrepresents facts or pollutes a river, government penalties are swift and severe. It’s different when the government screws Read More »
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    Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Preferred Price List for for March 2018 Has Arrived!

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    Commercial crab season delayed until at least Dec.15

    West Coast Dungeness crab Tri-State managers agreed Nov. 13 to delay the start of the 2019-20 season until at least Dec. 15 because crab are slow Read More »

  • Ottawa distances itself from N.S. senator on fishery – Conservative Senator Stephen Greene wrote of “immoral” fleet separation policy

    CBCNews – Federal Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield has reaffirmed so-called fleet separation, distancing the federal government from a letter written by a Nova Scotia Conservative Senator Read More »

  • Critics of Gill Nets Trying to Drive Fishery Offshore

    The Inshore Director for the FFAW says the latest allegations against the use of gill nets is nothing but an attempt to drive the industry offshore. Read More »

  • N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries meeting May 29-30,

    A report on seafood landings for 2012 will be given during the upcoming meeting of the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. The commission will meet today Read More »

  • Ecosexuals: For Those Times When Hugging a Tree is Not Enough

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  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 36′ Ellis Harpoon Boat, 600HP, Daytona Mack E7 Diesel

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  • U.S. Coast Guard, Canada partner to curb illegal fishing in the Pacific Ocean (SitNews)

    (SitNews) – The U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans recently conducted joint patrols of the high seas under Operation Drift Net Read More »

  • American Samoa: Collision at the main dock causes oil spill, Crewman hurt

    A major oil spill occurred at the main dock after a purse seiner struck the bow of another purse seiner before 8 this morning (Thursday) .  Read More »

  • Important South Atlantic Fishery Council actions last week

    Last week, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council at its meeting in Hilton Head, SC disappointingly moved forward with more no-fishing zones and effectively deferred action Read More »
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    Great ‘Green’ Job Hoax: Only China Profits From Making Wind Turbines & Solar Panels

    The promise of thousands of jobs building wind turbines and solar panels is a renewable energy mantra; there are – but only in China. China itself Read More »
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    Sam Parisi: Its 2020 and time to move this industry forward!

    Here we are again, at the end of the year, and decade for that matter, as 2019 is ending, and its time to move forward. As Read More »

  • Stonington: Bureaucracy claims another victim – After more than a century, Wilcox Marine closing down

    STONINGTON — Jeff Wilcox can remember when there were 50 commercial fishing draggers in Stonington Harbor. Now there are only two, said the owner of Wilcox Read More »

  • Predator-prey relationship of Lingcod and Rockfish – Catching one improves chances for the other

    The UW scientists examined this predator-prey relationship between lingcod and rockfish to see if allowing lingcod fishing in rockfish conservation areas could take some of the Read More »

  • NOAA’s Next Big Thing? Ocean Noise – Cracking down on noise-making activities in the ocean. $$$$!

    The ocean has gotten noisier for decades, with man-made racket from oil drilling, shipping and construction linked to signs of stress in marine life that include Read More »
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    Tribal fisheries advocate Lorraine Loomis of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community has passed away

    Loomis spent the last about 40 years serving the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, most recently as chairperson. She began her career in fisheries working in fish Read More »

  • Citizen science study to map the oceans’ plankton

    “The reason the project came about was because, in 2010, some Canadian scientists wrote a paper that suggested that the phytoplankton in the world’s oceans had Read More »
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    Brussels recommends legal action against Netherlands over pulse fishing permits

    Civil servants in Brussels are recommending that legal action be taken against the Netherlands for breaking the rules on pulse fishing, campaign group Bloom said on Read More »

  • Your View: Cape Wind is already a bad deal, by Peter A. Kenney, Yarmouth Ma.

    Following the saga of Cape Wind has been nothing if not amusing. Since 1999 when he first hired an engineering firm to survey likely sites in Read More »

  • Deadliest Catch Captains Making Mischief for charity at The Captain’s Whiskey Slam

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