3 lobstermen charged in connection with boat house fire

June 21, 2014 New England

The State Fire Marshal’s Office arrested three men in connection with a fire two years ago that destroyed a boat house and a lobster boat inside . The fire involved a large Quonset hut boathouse; owned by Donald Simmons, a lobster fisherman. Read more here 05:20

36 foot Wayne Beal fiberglass lobster boat;, boathouse and the lobster boat were destroyed, determined the cause of the fire was arson, Frederick Campbell 30 of Friendship, James Simmons 39 of Friendship, Jeffrey Luce 36 of Whitefield, lobstermen, Maine Marine Patrol, owned by Danny Reed Jr. of Friendship, State Fire Marshal's Office

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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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