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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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  • ‘They were lucky’: 5 crew rescued from sinking mussel boat in Malpeque Harbour

    The 45-foot vessel ran aground on a sandbar and started taking on water in rough seas just after 8 a.m. Monday, said Timothy Wall, a fisherman Read More »

  • Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission approves NJ option for summer flounder

    New Jersey is one step closer to becoming its own summer flounder management region. The  unanimously approved an option Tuesday during their winter meetings in Virginia to Read More »

  • Former Board of Fisheries nominee charged with Permanent Fund fraud

    A former head of the United Cook Inlet Drift Association and Alaska Board of  nominee is being charged with illegally collecting $7,422 in Alaska Permanent Fund Read More »
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    Beaufort County residents step in to raise money for damaged F/V Gracie Belle

    The 80-foot shrimping trawler “Gracie Belle” still sits at a dock on Saint Helena Island, despite the fact that it was meant to be out catching Read More »
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    Vietnam Veteran, Commercial Fisherman Guadalupe G. Zamora has passed away

    Guadalupe G. Zamora, a TX native, and U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran, entered eternal rest on July 27th at the age of 78 at his residence in Read More »
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    SF fishermen say Bay Area crab season may never again start before Thanksgiving

    It’s going to be harder to find local crab this Thanksgiving, and possibly for many Thanksgivings to come. For the fourth year in a row, the Read More »

  • Gamefish measure sparks commercial fishing industry anger

    “It (the bill) is taking fish, which science has proven commercial fishing has little impact to, and gives it to the group that has 90 percent Read More »
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    FISH-NL accuses FFAW of fake outrage and hypocrisy over new snow crab management strategy

    The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) held meetings earlier this week in St. John’s, Clarenville, and Gander to consult inshore harvesters on a proposed Read More »
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    Commercial fishing sails into final chapter

    The final nail in the coffin? According to the news, the traditional mom-and-pop style operations would move out of the Great Lakes for good, and leave Read More »
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    Whole Foods to stop selling Gulf of Maine lobster

    The Marine Stewardship Council suspended the certification of sustainability for the fishery last week, citing a failure to comply with laws meant to protect the North Read More »

  • NAFO Annual Meeting 2024: Key Decisions on Cod and Redfish Stocks

    A joint proposal from the EU and Canada led to the reopening of the fishery for Northern cod in Divisions 2J, 3K, and 3L, with a Read More »

  • NEFMC Executive Director Tom Nies warns of deeper cod cuts if NOAA data holds

    The New England Fisheries Management Council expects to move to reduce the annual catch limit for Gulf of Maine cod in 2015 if an impending peer Read More »

  • Maine tribe resists same-rules-for-all elvers plan that caps individual catches

    Under the bill, tribal fishermen would be subject to the same individual catch limits as other Maine fishermen. But the Passamaquoddies contend the tribe has made Read More »

  • Governor John Bel Edwards Appoints Jack Montoucet as Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Chief

    Acadiana lawmaker Jack Montoucet has been appointed secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries by Gov. John Bel Edwards. Montoucet, 69, represents District 42 in Read More »
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    Newlyn Fishermen fear for their future as Coronavirus threatens a second wave

    David Stevens, who owns the Crystal Sea trawler which operates out of Newlyn, said: “We’re free market, we don’t have a fixed price for fish. “That Read More »
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    Quinlan Brothers Ltd. Tenacity and community can overcome adversity

    Eight hours. That’s all it took to put an entire season of production, hundreds of jobs and 62 years of work by three generations of the Read More »

  • PEI, NB fishermen demanding better prices – They argue questions require an immediate response:

    The Sou’Wester – While they have been locked in a word of words for the last several months over carapace size, lobster fishermen in PEI and Read More »

  • Copper River continues lead in PWS commercial salmon harvests 

    With ice essentially gone from river systems, the sockeyes continued to weigh in heavier than through the same period a year ago, said fisheries biologist Jeremy Read More »
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    ‘Window dressing’: Sealord criticized for efforts to hire Kiwis

    Sealord is being accused of not making a genuine effort to employ New Zealanders to work on the two Russian-owned trawlers it charters. An ad in Read More »
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    Early numbers show strong start for commercial sockeye salmon harvest in Prince William Sound

    Commercial sockeye salmon fishing in Prince William Sound is off to a strong start, while it’s weaker in a handful of other fisheries, according to Anchorage Read More »

  • Lobbyist: Mashpee homeowner behind move to block shellfisherman

    MASHPEE — One of the homeowners locked in a legal battle against a proposed oyster farm in Popponesset Bay was behind a Boston lobbying firm tucking Read More »
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    Fundraiser for Maine Lobstermen’s Association raises over $50K

    With donations still rolling in, organizers of the fundraiser for the Maine Lobstermen’s Association held at Brady’s restaurant in Boothbay Harbor on Sunday, Aug. 7 report Read More »

  • UNH launches marine science and ocean engineering school

    This school acknowledges the contributions that faculty here have made to the marine world and provides a better platform to attract students, federal funding and donors Read More »

  • Dick Grachek – Pew laboring overtime on Tuna, in the Biblical sense.

    Couldn’t resist; spent the whole day on this, got so fired up at their blatant BS. DG Fish News EU reports another missive from Pew (see Read More »

  • ‘The Codfather’ expected to report to prison today

    A New Bedford fishing magnate who pleaded guilty to multiple charges is expected to report to prison Monday to begin his sentence. Carlos Rafael — also Read More »

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