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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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  • Jack Merrill, poet, painter… and lobsterman

    If one were to attend a recent Mount Desert Island school sporting event, then attend an art exhibit reception at the Northeast Harbor Library and buy Read More »
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    Bycatch – From problem to opportunity. Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet USA

    For as long as I have been involved in the commercial fishing industry, and that’s going back for what is approaching forty years, there has been Read More »

  • Return of the seals to Plettenberg Bay

    Fishermen have been pointing fingers at seals for decades,,,Despite evidence to the contrary, the fishing industry continues to lay the blame for collapsing fish stocks on Read More »
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    Vineyard Wind Offshore wind project clears hurdle despite opposition

    A project to create a wind farm off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard has cleared another hurdle. The Coastal Resources Management Council met for its semi-monthly Read More »

  • Please submit written comments – Amendment 23, Northeast Multispecies FMP, deadline 5 p.m. EST, Monday, April 3, 2017. 

    The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is initiating the development of an amendment to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Northeast Multispecies (Groundfish) under the Read More »

  • Flag hopping fishing companies drive small fishermen to piracy. – The link between illegal fishing and piracy

    Government authorities and shipping industry insiders are increasingly concerned that maritime piracy will rise globally as huge, commercial fishing firms—especially the ones that operate illegally—drive fishermen Read More »

  • The CG36500 Historic Coast Guard lifeboat rescues kayaker

    More than 62 years after the CG36500 lifeboat rescued 32 men off the coast of Chatham in what became known as the greatest small-boat rescue in Read More »

  • Anti-seal hunt group to stay off ice this year

    For the first time in almost 20 years, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) won’t be sending a team of observers out on the Atlantic Read More »
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    Working Watermen Commission Takes on Timely Issues at their Inaugural Meeting

    The revitalized Dare County Commission for Working Watermen held their inaugural meeting on Wednesday, March 21, and tackled several pressing issues that are connected to the Read More »
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    Lobster boats converge on Rockland

    Rockland — Although there was a stiff breeze and a few rain drops, a posse of area lobster boats met up in Rockland Harbor for the Read More »

  • Who Let the Fish Out: Fish Hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest – vigilante fisherman? or some eco crazed fanatic?!!

    Early in the morning of May 13th, 2014, an unknown fish vigilante stole into the Tokul Creek Fish Hatchery in the suburbs of Seattle and cut Read More »
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    Groundbreaking co-management decision by B.C. First Nations, DFO protect crab for Indigenous food, social and ceremonial purposes

    After 14 years of collecting data and aligning Indigenous knowledge and fisheries science, the federal department, DFO, and the Kitasoo/Xai’xais, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk and Wuikinuxv nations decided Read More »

  • Crab fishing organization says State of California commission unfairly changed policy on crabbing season

    A crabbing association is suing the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and California Fish and Game Commission, alleging violation of federal law. Tri-State Crab Producers Read More »

  • Lessons from ‘the last clam’: Casco Bay shellfish ‘renaissance’

    Tim Johnson of Harpswell had been clamming for more than 30 years when, in 2014, he hung up his hoe. Between predators such as the invasive Read More »
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    Retired Commercial Fisherman Joseph Correia of South Dartmouth has passed away

    Joseph Correia, Jr., 85, of South Dartmouth, gently passed after a long illness on January 9 at 12:26 a.m. at St. Luke’s Hospital surrounded by his Read More »

  • Shrimp Fisheries Improving in Gulf of Mexico, Thanks In Part to Seafood Suppliers

    Fishery improvement projects (FIPs) are based on the premise that the seafood industry itself is the strongest force for driving improvements in fisheries, and a group Read More »
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    The Voices of Gloucester Fishermen: NOAA offers virtual trip through Gloucester fishing history

    The voices speak to the experience of living and fishing in America’s oldest commercial seaport, of the challenges and the joys of working on the waters Read More »

  • BREAKING—-John Bullard comes through for Gulf of Maine and New England Gill Netters!

    John Bullard, the new regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service, decides in favor of fishermen, justifiably so! A pending  closure for an area of ocean Read More »

  • Managers meet, tackle state waters Gulf issues

    Currently, the council is considering a rationalization program for trawlers targeting pollock, Pacific cod, and several other target and secondary species in the central Gulf of Read More »

  • Rockport native filming an industry under seige – “Dead in the Water”

    As a kid growing up in Rockport, David Wittkower remembers driving down along the Gloucester waterfront and being greeted by the sight of the expansive Gloucester Read More »

  • Nova Scotia lobster, or ‘Boston Lobster’ in China, could be rebranded

    With Canadian lobster sales in China at record levels, a major Nova Scotia exporter is trying rebrand the tasty crustacean to overcome its generic name in Read More »
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    Offshore Wind Farms: As turbines rise, small-scale fishermen have the most to lose

    David Aripotch is 65, a weathered man with gray hair, just tall enough to see over the helm. He has been fishing for almost a half-century, Read More »

  • Traditional Knowledge in the “Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment”

    The final version of the EPA’a “Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment” will likely be released in the next couple of months. One part of the assessment looks Read More »

  • Greater Atlantic Region fisheries to receive $36 million in disaster relief funds – (post- tropical cyclone Sandy?)

    As part of the Fiscal Year 2014 federal budget, Congress approved $75 million in fishery disaster relief funds. Today, NOAA NMFS announced that the New England groundfish Read More »
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    Tom Sewid has applied for a commercial licence to hunt seals and sea lions!

    While there is money to be made from selling seal meat and fur, Tom Sewid, a director for Pacific Balance Marine Management (PBMM), said the main Read More »

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