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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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  • Dear Editor: Crab fishermen continue to suffer- Patti Grant, El Granada

    The most recent crab testing still shows unsafe levels of domoic acid. For fishing to resume, levels need to be lower in the next three weekly Read More »

  • Pallone Opposes Cuts to Summer Flounder Quotas at Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission meeting

    Today, at the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, a spokesperson for Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) provided a statement arguing that proposed reductions for Summer Flounder Read More »

  • AK fishing updates, ADFG budget cuts

     As always in Alaska, lots of fishing is going on from Ketchikan to the Bering Sea. Salmon trollers are back out on the water at Neets Read More »

  • Crabber Dundee – Professional crabber Dale Collie has gone to extreme measures to send crab pot thieves scurrying.

    He hired a chopper so he could search from the sky for his stolen pots, and has scattered numerous infra-red Scoutguard cameras among the trees and Read More »
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    B.C. Herring fisherman charged with tossing a ‘bear banger’ to disperse group of sea lions last year

    Herring fisherman Allen Marsden is facing three counts under the Fisheries Act and Explosives Act for tossing a small, explosive device known as a “bear banger” Read More »
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    Salmon fishing closures won’t save the whales. Federal government accused of going after salmon fishery as ‘low hanging fruit’

    “We (recreational fishers) are taking one per cent of the chinook salmon stock. That’s not the problem. The real problem is these whales are swimming in Read More »
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    New Video Shows Impacts of Offshore Wind On U.K. Fishermen

    A new video, Winds of Change, released today by the Fisheries Survival Fund (FSF), documents how the arrival of offshore wind blindsided U.K. fishermen, and how Read More »

  • Oyster reef now closed after reopening for first time in 54 years

    Officials with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced the Biloxi Bay oyster reef was closed for fishing beginning Wednesday (Nov. 9) due to excessive localized Read More »

  • Cutting back – Closure fresh in memory, setnetters innovate for king conservation

    Peninsula Clarion – Gary Hollier has a king salmon problem. The commercial setnetter has had it for a few years and he’s far from the only one. Most Read More »

  • Province prepares ground for lobster levy

    A lobster marketing levy on sales still isn’t in place in Nova Scotia but the government would be allowed to collect such a fee under legislation Read More »

  • Don Cuddy: Collaborative research can save the New England groundfish industry

    The data used for fish stock assessment in the Northeast is derived primarily from the annual spring and fall surveys conducted by the Henry B. Bigelow, Read More »

  • Searching for Atlantic bluefin tuna larvae and more in the Slope Sea

    The NOAA Vessel Gordon Gunter departed on June 10 from Newport, Rhode Island, and immediately headed off the continental shelf to water deeper than 1,000 meters Read More »

  • Facing restrictions, fishermen welcome possible disaster aid

    Another EDF puff piece from the boring broadsheet! A lot of BS in this one. South Shore fishermen welcome the prospect of aid from September’s federal Read More »
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    Please Bring Our Boys Back Home – Song to remember lost fishermen races up charts

    A new song in memory of two Scottish fishermen who were lost when the Nancy Glen prawn trawler sank is climbing the charts. Yesterday morning, within Read More »

  • Video: Coast Guard, Seattle-based F/V Aleutian Beauty Rescue 5 Fishermen From Life Raft in Bering Sea, Alaska

    Good Samaritans aboard the 98-foot Seattle-based fishing vessel Aleutian Beauty,  responding to a Coast Guard issued urgent marine information broadcast, rescue  five uninjured fishermen from a Read More »

  • Selling ‘Gloucester Fresh’ to middle America

    More than 1,500 miles separates Gloucester from Bentonville, Arkansas. But if Barry Furuseth has his way, he’ll connect the two geographical dots with an unceasing supply Read More »
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    Search resumes for missing Mary’s Harbour fishermen with Canadian Armed Forces, Coast Guard

    The search for two missing fishermen from Mary’s Harbour has resumed with the help of the Canadian Armed Forces and the coast guard Monday, after the Read More »

  • So. You wanna be a “Wicked Tuna” Fisherman, eh? Stranded in Mattapoisett

    Anthony Rhodes has had a rough week. The 22-year-old West Virginian was left stranded in Mattapoisett with $60 to his name, a skateboard and a 31-foot Read More »
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    ‘In the Eye of the Storm’: McConalogue Presents Memo on Seafood Task Force Report to Cabinet

    The task force report, published in early October, is recommending just over €423 million be given to the Irish fishing industry to help weather the impact of Read More »

  • Maine: Penalties for lobster fishing violations stiffened

    Harsher penalties for fishing law violators went into effect last month after aspects of state Sen. Brian Langley’s (R-Hancock County) bill aimed at curbing violations was Read More »
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    Fisherman lost at sea for 11 days survived in an upturned freezer

    A fisherman who was lost at sea managed to survive for 11 days by climbing into an upturned freezer. Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues, 44, was sailing off the Read More »
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    Lobster buoys mark the spot of lives spent fishing on the Maine coast

    The colors, as varied as they can be, abundantly dot the blue surface of Maine waters like an Easter basket brimming with brightly painted eggs. They Read More »

  • Operation Sea Lion disperses sea lions, for now

    The borough’s war against aggressive marine wildlife dubbed “Operation Sea Lion” has been successful in keeping the animals off the floats and away from people. It’s Read More »

  • Tobique First Nation fishery mired in court battles, band council split

    The future of the Tobique First Nation’s commercial fishery is up in the air after the latest courtroom battle between the band and the companies running Read More »

  • Massachusetts Environmental Police busts Maine skipper for six hidden bags of scallops during offload

    A Maine captain faces prosecution after an inspector, who was checking the boat as scallops were offloaded Thursday in Gloucester, reported finding additional shellfish, worth more than $6,000, Read More »

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