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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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  • Multinational search for missing crewmember in the Western Pacific

    POHNPEI, FSM—Multiple agencies from the Federated States of Micronesia, Japan, and the U.S. coordinated efforts, over the course of five days, to search for a crewmember Read More »

  • Lifelines for Cape Pond Ice

    This is symbolic posting of GDT. They have changed to a pay access venue. All historic material that we used to promote the industry is on lock Read More »
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    Coast Guard, good Samaritans assist 4 aboard shrimping vessel taking on water near St. Simons Island

    The Coast Guard and good Samaritans assisted four people Tuesday after their shrimping vessel began taking on water near St. Simons Island, Georgia. Coast Guard Sector Read More »
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    UK Fisheries Administrations call on fishermen with vessels 12 metres and longer, register with International Maritime Organization

    Access for UK boats to fish in EU, Norwegian or Faroese waters after the UK leaves the EU will be a matter for negotiation. Should access Read More »

  • Where Barnegat Bay’s pollution really comes from

    Rapid growth in southern Ocean County in the last decade may be accelerating the marked decline of Barnegat Bay in the last few years —extending southward Read More »
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    New England/Mid Atlantic: Public Scoping Meetings for Modifications to the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan

    We will be conducting eight scoping meetings this month in anticipation of preparing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for modifications to the Atlantic Large Whale Take Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 87′ Steel (Shrimpr Style) Trawler,1994, Dragger Steel, CAT 3412

    Specifications, and information and 20 photos click here  To see all the boats in this series, Click here 11:52 Read More »

  • Commercial fleet owner Julius Leroy Whorton of North Crolina has passed away

    Julius Leroy Whorton, 84, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family and friends on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Leroy, as he was known, was born in Read More »
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    Fraser River sockeye fishery to stay closed because of concerns about the stocks

    The department said in a notice Tuesday that Fraser River sockeye forecasts are “highly uncertain” at this time. Fraser River sockeye returns from 2015 and 2016 Read More »

  • A legacy of hard work and devotion – Steve Parrish Sr., Supply, N.C.

    Steve Parrish Sr. always had an answer. His son, Steven Parrish, remembers his dad being able to figure out anything, answer any question he had. Parrish, Read More »
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    Cooke Aquaculture Fish farm has 60 days to fix net pens outside Seattle, risks losing lease

    Just a week after the state Department of Fish and Wildlife approved shipment of 1 million more farmed Atlantic salmon to Cooke Aquaculture’s fish farm near Read More »
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    Diver airlifted from Northern Harvest Sea Farms site in Fortune Bay, stop-work order issued

    Northern Harvest Sea Farms hired several dive teams to empty its open-net pens, following a massive fish die-off that left thousands of pounds of salmon to Read More »

  • Feds Back Off Drastic Rule Change For Sharks

    OCEAN CITY — The local fishing community breathed a collective sigh of relief this week when federal fisheries officials decided to drop a rather drastic rule Read More »

  • Insight: Comeback cod lessens gloom over emptying oceans

    Just over six years ago, an article in the U.S. journal Science projected that all fish and seafood species, on current trends, would collapse by 2048. Read More »

  • Woman shot on fishing vessel in Port of Cape May

    The New Jersey State Police said a Lower Township man was arrested for attempted murder after he shot a Whitesboro woman aboard a fishing vessel docked Read More »

  • France and its fishermen speak out against the United Kingdom and its marine protected areas

    Taking the objectives set by the Kunming-Montreal Agreement at face value, the United Kingdom has strengthened the protection of its marine protected areas. An ecological decision Read More »

  • A ‘Dock to Dish’ Effort Meant to Support N.H. Fishermen

    Commercial ground fishermen on the east coast are struggling–so much so that there’s concern about whether they, and not the fish they catch, are an endangered Read More »

  • Hollywood to begin filming new Coast Guard movie that no one will watch

    A new action-thriller movie based on true experiences from a search-and-rescue unit is set to be the next Coast Guard movie that no one will actually Read More »
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    Govt considering ditching fishing boat camera plans

    The government is considering scrapping the rollout of cameras on commercial fishing vessels altogether. Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash said many in the fishing industry were unhappy with Read More »

  • WPRO’s “Fishing for Answers” – a conversation about the Rhode Island fishing industry and where it’s headed

    Published on Jul 26, 2013 – WPRO continued our Debate Series with “Fishing for Answers,” a conversation about the local fishing industry and where it’s headed. Hosted by Read More »
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    Letter: Stop digging a graveyard for our fisheries

    Our fishing industry in Newfoundland and Labrador is in shambles, and yet politicians and decision-makers are blind to the fish bones pilling up in the graveyard, Read More »

  • Today’s deep thoughts from a PETA person – Try the fish-free fish fingers

    In all the talk about the EU Common Fisheries Policy, one party has been entirely ignored – the fish. Fish don’t get a vote, but if Read More »
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    NPFMC closing Cook Inlet federal waters to commercial salmon fishing

    Council action on incorporating the federal waters of Cook Inlet into a federal Fishery Management Plan was necessitated by a lawsuit brought against federal managers by Read More »
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    Lobsterman shares video of ‘tickling’ a skate, but animal rights people react with outrage

    Jeffrey Dader was at work on Cape Cod Bay last week when he caught the skate in one of his lobster pots. He later posted a Read More »
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    Poor weather, ice conditions delays opening of spring lobster fishery until Monday for northern N.B.

    Sunday’s weather forecast has delayed opening day of the spring lobster fishery in northern New Brunswick until Monday at 6 a.m. Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Luc Légère said the Read More »

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