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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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Alaska fishermen consider leaving Copper River/Prince William Sound Marketing Association
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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance – Weekly Update December 16, 2012
“The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” http://hosted.vresp.com/1181479/0773d69767/545568053/ad93d20bca/ Read More » -
WPRO’s “Fishing for Answers” – a conversation about the Rhode Island fishing industry and where it’s headed
Published on Jul 26, 2013 – WPRO continued our Debate Series with “Fishing for Answers,” a conversation about the local fishing industry and where it’s headed. Hosted by Read More » -
Pacific Fishery Management Council Chooses Salmon Season Options
The Pacific Fishery Management Council has adopted for public review three alternatives for the 2018 salmon seasons off the West Coast of the United States. The Read More » -
EPA Awards $500,000 to Reduce Marine Emissions
Two Massachusetts projects have been awarded more than half a million dollars under a competitive national grant competition to reduce diesel emissions. more@ecori 09:48 Read More » -
Crab plant workers have punched their time in spades this season, and are being called heroes
Workers at seafood processing plants in Newfoundland have been working all summer long in an effort to make sure snow crab quotas for the shortened 2023 Read More » -
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission meeting in Alexandria, Virginia May 8 – 11, 2017 – Listen Live
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will meet at The Westin Alexandria, 400 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, May 8 – 11, 2017 The agenda is subject Read More » -
Clamping down on illicit plundering of food and natural resources could curb Africa’s food shortages
The extensive subsidies rich nations, including those in the European Union, dole out have helped extend global overfishing, according to the panel. Around $27-billion in cheap Read More » -
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is meeting in Anchorage October 3rd – 11th, 2016
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will meet the week of October 3, 2016 at the Hilton Hotel, 500 W. 3rd Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. The AGENDA Read More » -
Coast Guard medevacs man 230 miles north of Cold Bay, Alaska
A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a man Sunday morning from the 143-foot fishing vessel American No.1, 230 miles north of Read More » -
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is laying the blame – Oystermen React to the Report
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is laying the blame for the oyster crisis in Franklin County, squarely on the US Army Corps of Engineers. Read More » -
Simple greed shut down cannery: Nobels
The Skeena Queen Charlotte Regional District is demanding a higher stake in the region’s salmon resources, calling for a return to abandoned policies that protected communities Read More » -
Gloucester Daily Times Editorial: Loss numbers show need to ease fish aid distribution
The word that Massachusetts will lose about $34 million in direct revenue through the decline in 2013 fish landings — and the estimate that direct and Read More » -
N.S. lobster pound guilty of ‘egregious’ handling of egg-bearing female lobsters
One of Nova Scotia’s largest lobster pounds has been convicted for holding undersized and egg-bearing female lobsters at its facility on Cape Sable Island. Atlantic ChiCan Read More » -
Friday Funny – ‘tree hugging’ taken to the extreme
Some days you just have to wonder about the sanity of environmentalists, today is one of those days. The photo below, Twittered by PBS station KQED Read More » -
Public Enemy #1: Rule changes put green crabs on Maine’s front burner
There’s a great big target on the backs of predator green crabs now, thanks to rule changes by the Maine Department of Marine Resources that went Read More » -
For He Has Risen.
We wish you all Peace and Good Will on this Easter Sunday. 08:10 Read More » -
Fishermen blast N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries over southern flounder data
“I’m laughing at some of your data,” said Russ Howard during public comment, expressing the widely held view among the commercial fishermen that the DMF numbers Read More » -
Wording puts Canada at odds with UN fish plan – calls for the protection of fishermen “in situations of occupation,”
A United Nations-sponsored proposal to protect and promote small-scale fisheries has run into a problem, with Canada emerging as the lone dissenting voice in a dispute that Read More » -
30 years after N.L. cod moratorium – the wins are few and losses are many
John Williams wishes he could say the cod moratorium of 1992 feels like it was yesterday. But after losing his livelihood and reinventing himself a few Read More » -
Where are the Cod??If you are a New England Ground Fisherman, you’ve got to listen to this! The Fisheries Broadcast with John Furlong
The new nuisance in our waters… codfish. They’re eating all the crab!! We’re not talking about small fish, or a slight increase. We’re talking about huge Read More » -
Russians planning major Caribbean oil study
The Russian government last month publicly expressed an interest in Caribbean oil and natural gas exploration, including off the coasts of nations near South Florida. more@keysnet 12:54 Read More » -
Scuttled! Coast Guard assists Alaska Department of Natural Resources complete response to fishing vessel Akutan
The Coast Guard assisted the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ response to the disabled and abandoned fishing vessel Akutan near Dutch Harbor, Alaska, Thursday. The crew Read More » -
Shetland fishing industry ‘flung by the wayside’ for offshore wind farms
Addressing a session during the parliamentary Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum policy conference, Shetland Fishermen’s Association (SFA) executive officer Daniel Lawson said his industry had “big Read More » -
Better science for better fisheries management.
In research published online last month in the journal Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, Grabowski found that mobile fishing gear such as trawls and dredges Read More »
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Disgusting — and so sad — especially since, as I understand it, the wind turbines can only provide such a small fraction of the energy needed. Once again our government at work “solving problems” creating “green jobs” while destroying the livelihood of fishermen and the families that depend upon them. %#@&!!!!!
I can confidently say this is not the United States of America I grew up in. Obama is living proof that the Pen is mightier then the Sword even if it is not used honorably.” Identity Theft ” is a petty Crime in comparison to “THE OBAMA OCEAN POLICY” and the GREEN MAFIA propelling it.
Wind Mills produce overly expensive Electricity inconsistently. The construction of the Wind Farms will destroy the Ocean bottoms Ecology. Furthermore “STRAY ELECTRICITY” will continue to destroy or displace Species in the Ocean. Also the Turbine Blades will kill Birds, which has already been documented.
It’s time for Congress to stop this fraud that stole OUR COMMON PROPERTY and reeks of RICO!!!