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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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  • Local lobstermen fear repeat of glut, low prices

    Lobstermen in Maine last year caught 123 million pounds of lobster, up 18 million from the year before, but worth $3.7 million less, Keliher said. No one knows Read More »

  • N.L. government seeks injunction against fishermen amid tense protest at Confederation Building

    The Newfoundland and Labrador government has gone to the Supreme Court to seek an injunction against fish harvesters who swarmed Confederation Building on Wednesday as part Read More »

  • NORTH CAROLINA FISHERIES ASSOCIATION – WEEKLY UPDATE: 5/30/2014

    “Serving the Commercial Fishing Families of North Carolina since 1952” Click here to read the update 16:28 Read More »

  • Maine: Lobster license squatting

    Maine has a fairly complicated system for limiting entry into the lucrative lobster fishing industry. As presently constructed, some would-be fishermen might wait a decade or Read More »

  • USCB, DNR to study toxic effects of rainfall in coastal SC waters

    USCB and DNR have purchased equipment that will be stationed at various spots throughout the waterways for a year. The devices, to be deployed in about Read More »

  • Harpswell lobsterman, 90, swims to safety after boat sinks

    Phillip Tuttle was home Monday afternoon recovering from cuts and scrapes suffered in the ordeal, according to his daughter-in-law Verian Tuttle. “He’s a pretty stubborn, feisty Mainer,” Read More »
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    Australia: Seafood industry calls for Senate inquiry into seismic testing

    Members of the Australian seafood industry are persisting in their calls for an inquiry into seismic testing, despite the Senate having twice rejected the idea. Seismic Read More »

  • NTSB Issues Safety Alert on Personal Locator Devices for Mariners

    A new safety alert issued by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to provide each crewmember with a personal locator device. These devices improve a mariner’s Read More »
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    One Month Later: Clearing, rebuilding start at Vaca Key Marina following devastating fire

    It has been one month today since an early-morning fire tore through the bayside Vaca Key Marina near mile marker 47.5. In the four weeks since Read More »

  • Jim Gossen: The Old Man and The Seafood – Louisiana Seafood News

    As Jim Gossen got older, his sleep patterns changed. No longer a night owl, these days Gossen prefers to have an early-morning coffee on the docks with local fishermen Read More »
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    Impact of bait closure heightens

    The Atlantic spring herring fishery will not reopen this year, and while no decision has been made on mackerel yet, the stock remains deep in the Read More »
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    IPHC commissioners hope to find middle ground on catch limits

    In January, disagreements on the International Pacific Halibut Commission came to a head. U.S. and Canadian commissioners are in agreement on one thing, halibut stocks are Read More »
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    GLOUCESTER S-K GRANT MEETING WITH NOAA WAS CANCELED

    Dear readers, I was very disappointed yesterday to find out that NOAA cancelled a meeting in Gloucester to do with SKG money. I had fishermen, and Read More »
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    Consultation amid low crab and lobster numbers

    Members of the fishing industry are being asked for their views to inform a plan to ensure crab and lobster are caught sustainably.  It comes amid Read More »

  • Approval of GM salmon eggs will be challenged in Canadian court

    The Ecology Action Centre and Living Oceans Society have partnered together in challenging Environment Canada’s decision to approve genetically modified Atlantic salmon eggs. The case will Read More »

  • Only half of drugs, other newly emerging contaminants removed from sewage treatment

    Only about half of the prescription drugs and other newly emerging contaminants in sewage are removed by treatment plants. More than 1,400 wastewater treatment plants in Read More »
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    Bill C-68 will protect smaller inshore fishery operators from corporate takeover, group says

    Trudeau government legislation that enshrines the independence of Atlantic Canada’s inshore fishing fleets and enhances protections for fish stocks and fish habitat has cleared the Senate. Read More »
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    UPDATED: How an explosive device from WWII ended up in fisherman’s net in Rhode Island

    Tuesday’s catch for Glenn Westcott of Narragansett dredged up a little more than his usual haul of fish and sea critters. Westcott is the captain of Read More »
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    Oregon boat captain accused of drunken assault on woman at sea

    An Oregon man accused of assaulting a woman on a commercial fishing ship he was operating while intoxicated was arrested after a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter Read More »

  • The affidavit in support of a criminal complaint charging CARLOS RAFAEL and DEBRA MESSIER

    AFFIDAVIT OF SPECIAL AGENT RONALD MULLET … I submit this affidavit in support of a criminal complaint charging CARLOS RAFAEL and DEBRA MESSIER with a, making Read More »
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    Gloucester Fishermen’s Memorial Service Saturday, Aug. 24, 5 PM

    Fishermen’s Memorial Service, 5 p.m., procession from the American Legion, down Middle Street and onto Stacy Boulevard led by drummers. Carry flowers or oars in memory Read More »
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    Something Irritated Her Eye; She Pulled Out A Cattle Worm (Photo)

    During the summer of 2016, Abby Beckley was working as a deck hand on a commercial fishing boat near Southeast Alaska when her left eye started Read More »
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    A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in U.S. history

    Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil per day have been spewing from a site 12 miles off the Louisiana coast since 2004, when an oil-production Read More »

  • The trial of a cutting-edge type of trawl door has proved very effective off Nova Scotia.

    The preliminary trial by a Canadian fishing vessel using PV3 trawl doors from Morgère resulted in a catch of nearly 40 tonnes of redfish. The Carmelle Read More »

  • Worker shortage leaves lobster at the wharves

    A lobster buyer in Georgetown told CBC News Tuesday there’s just too much lobster being caught right now all through the region. David Conrad said his Read More »

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