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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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  • October is National Seafood Month – Where people eat the most/least seafood. This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch

    October is National Seafood Month – a distinction proclaimed by Congress more than  a quarter century ago to recognize one of our nation’s oldest industries. Government Read More »
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    Fisheries union, harvesters eager to work with new federal minister

    Diane Lebouthillier, Liberal MP for the Quebec riding of Gaspésie-Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, was one of several ministers to assume new roles in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet Read More »
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    Atlantic Lobster Board Moves Toward Reducing Rope In Effort To Save Right Whales

    A consortium of Atlantic states fisheries managers is calling for broad changes to the gear lobstermen use, in an effort to reduce risks posed to the Read More »

  • Nova Scotia tuna fishermen say Shea, MacAulay pandering to locals

    Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea says the fear of longliners entering the Gulf of St. Lawrence to fish tuna this year is a non-issue being fanned Read More »

  • Day 6 NPFMC Meeting – October 2 – 8 – Listen Live

    Link to the Agenda here   To listen live while the meeting is in session Link here  09:44   Read More »

  • From the Deckboss

    McPollock, Yes, you’re all doing great!, Halibut harvesters catch a break. Read more, and read the comments. Read More »

  • Dr. Rothschild receives Lifetime Achievemen​t Award and Discusses CSF’s Proposed Rewritten National Standards

    Dear Friends,  Today, Brian Rothschild, President and CEO of CSF received the Highliner’s  Lifetime Achievement Award at the Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle, Washington. In his Read More »
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    Did New Bedford police tell a fisherman to take down his ‘anti-windmill’ flag?

    According to local scalloper Russell Isabel, captain of the F/V Prowess, the Prowess started showing signs of an engine problem in the area of the New Read More »

  • Why do Seattle’s homeless get to feast on Alaska’s king salmon bycatch?

    Trawlers dragging their nets in the Gulf of Alaska out-of-sight over the horizon from most state ports may be catching and killing more king salmon than Read More »
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    2 Plead Guilty to Sinking 54-Foot Fishing Boat to Collect Insurance

    Two men pleaded guilty in San Diego Wednesday to conspiring to destroy their own vessel, a 57-foot boat used for charter sport-fishing trips, in order to Read More »
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    Don Cuddy: Late New Bedford scalloper never got the justice he deserved

    It probably passed unnoticed by most people but an obituary for Larry Yacubian appeared in this newspaper on June 13. He died in Punta Gorda, Florida Read More »
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    What Is the Marine Mammal Protection Act?

    The Marine Mammal Protection Act, or MMPA, is the U.S. federal law restricting human actions that affect marine mammals. The MMPA was signed into law in 1974 by Read More »

  • BP is ordered to pay $130 million — and more — to run oil spill claims center

    The ruling comes as BP tries to temporarily block claims payments while former FBI Director Louis Freeh investigates allegations of misconduct by an attorney who worked Read More »

  • F/V Bill B II Runs Aground off Martha’s Vineyard, Coast Guard helicopter crew safely hoisted the fishermen

    BOSTON — Coast Guard rescue crews rescued two fishermen from a grounded vessel near Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., Thursday at approximately 6 a.m. Watchstanders from Sector Southeastern New England received notification, via VFH channel 16 Read More »

  • Derelict crab gear is spotted by air, snagged at sea

    By air and sea, environmental groups and the Quinault Indian Nation are spotting and retrieving derelict crab pots over 150 square miles of ocean, pots with Read More »

  • Chatham-Kent’s amazing fishing economy sometimes overlooked

    There are currently 16 fish processors located in various regions throughout Ontario. Here in Chatham-Kent, we have three of them, so we are well represented. The Read More »

  • Cape Wind opponents sue Coast Guard saying the agency failed to respond to a request for public records as required by law.

    Mark Rodgers, spokesman for Cape Wind, called the alliance’s most recent lawsuit a “desperate publicity stunt.” continued@southcoasttoday Read More »

  • Coast Guard cuts ribbon on new Menemsha boathouse

    While faithful to the look of the iconic 1939 structure destroyed in a devastating fire, the new $10 million boathouse serves a modern purpose. Local and Read More »

  • McCrory set stage for latest threat to shrimping

    The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission appears poised to pass a new regulation that many critics say will drastically impact, perhaps even shut down, North Carolina’s Read More »
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    Mi’kmaw lobster fisherman in Nova Scotia says he plans to fight several fishery charges

    Ashton Bernard, 30, says he was exercising his treaty right to fish for a moderate livelihood when officers with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans seized Read More »

  • How lobstermen gather temperature data from the bottom of the ocean

    A few decades ago, Jim Manning wanted to know what was at the bottom of the sea. And after years of studying waterways on the Atlantic Read More »

  • Study Finds There Are Literally More Fish in the Sea

    A new study from researchers with the Malaspina Expedition, managed by the Spanish National Research Council, found there could be 10 times more fish mass in the Read More »
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    Coronavirus: Long Island Wholesale fish prices drop as restaurants cut back

    The wholesale price for lobsters, normally anywhere from $12 to $15 a pound this time of year, have fallen under $8, dealers say. Other normally pricey Read More »

  • Maritime elver fishery closure penalizes legal fishers, committee hears

    The committee heard from the Canada Border Services Agency, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the RCMP, the Canadian Committee for a Sustainable Eel Fishery, and a Read More »

  • Editorial: Hail fishing aid when it reaches those who need it

    But you should excuse fishermen and even federal and state lawmakers if all this good news didn’t exactly touch off celebrations along the docks, and in Read More »

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