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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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  • Where’s the fishing disaster aid going? N.J., N.Y. get $3.8 million; New England banks majority Pallone is HOT!

    Rep. Frank Pallone ‏@FrankPallone 39m Unacceptable that @NOAA is only allocating $3mil to NJ/NY fisheries out of $75mil w/ the extent of #Sandy devastation http://1.usa.gov/Ny1vDp Industry Read More »

  • Three Lower Keys brothers will serve six months in prison, prosecuted under the U.S. Lacey Act

    Senior U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King approved a plea agreement between Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Watts-Fitzgerald and defense attorneys that called for six months imprisonment Read More »
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    Lobstermen Select IMTRA For Equipment

    IMTRA announced today it has provided Offshore series LED deck lights, Exalto and Roca windshield wipers, Side-Power thrusters and Zipwake Dynamic Trim Control Systems to lobster Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 1985, Shrimp Dragger Fiberglass, Cummins, 540HP – Price Reduced!

    Specifications, information, and 28 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here  12:38 Read More »

  • July 22 Meetings for Fishermen on Upcoming Groundfish Operational Assessments

    The NEFSC is holding outreach meetings on July 22 in Portland, Gloucester, Woods Hole, and New Bedford for fishermen interested in the upcoming operational assessments for Read More »

  • Appeals court orders state board to reconsider Atlantic City windfarm

    The order requires the BPU to reconsider Fishermen’s Energy’s application to build the 25-megawatt project — which it rejected in April while citing costs to ratepayers Read More »

  • EDITORIAL: Reviving groundfish

    Even heavily overfished, nearly depleted groundfish stocks can fully recover. That, says Dalhousie University marine biology professor Boris Worm, is the underlying message in the stunning Read More »

  • My Turn: It’s time for trawlers to pay their fair share – Pete Wedin, F/V Julia Lynn, Homer, AK

    In short, in 2012, after 20 years of unchanged halibut bycatch limits for the Gulf of Alaska trawl fisheries, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council took Read More »

  • Senators Shaheen, Ayotte push for a full investigation into NOAA at-sea monitoring program

    “As you may know, the New England fishing industry has been devastated in recent years by severe cuts to catch quotas,” wrote the Senators. “In this Read More »
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    Rory Rodger Ahern, Jr., Greenfield, N.J. Scallop Fisherman has passed away

    After years of struggling with mental health and substance use, Rory (Rodger) Ahern lost his battle at 29 years old. While his illness often took the Read More »
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    Fishing vessel crashes into Menemsha commercial wharf

    The scalloper Martha Rose allided with the commercial wharf in Menemsha at roughly 6 am Saturday morning. The impact smashed a section of plank and rail Read More »

  • Moulton unites region to reform at-sea monitoring

    U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton has expanded efforts to reform at-sea monitoring for groundfishing vessels, corralling a regional and bipartisan group of federal legislators to urge NOAA Read More »

  • Center for Biological Diversity Petition targets ‘rogue’ killings by Wildlife Services

    They say U.S. critter assassins work in secret, quietly laying traps, lacing food with poison, sniping at targets from helicopters. Few people know exactly how the Read More »
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    Texas Tornado Takes Down Wind Turbines

    The wind was too strong. Meteorologist Payton Malone shared a photo on social media that shows the impact a Texas tornado had on several wind turbines Read More »
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    This Nest of Dangers: Gillnetting in 1884, 1887, and 1975

    Just now, it’s raining axe handles out there; it’s the weekend of Fisher Poets in Astoria, and I’ve been reading the annual report of the U.S. Read More »

  • Down to the sea, as Gloucester remembers its own

    With the long line of American flags rippling above the crescent of Stacy Boulevard and the postcard of its harbor serving as the backdrop, Gloucester on Read More »

  • Ecosystem reports show continuing effects of warming in Alaska’s marine waters

    The waters off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands registered the warmest winter temperatures in over a century, part of a decade-long period of warming, according to a report Read More »
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    Anti-salmon farming activist Alexandra Morton to give special presentation for Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

    Alexandra Morton has been called “the Jane Goodall of Canada” because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia’s wild salmon from salmon farms. Her Read More »

  • South Atlantic Tilefish harvest limit to begin

     The daily vessel trip limit will decrease to 300 pounds effective Monday, Feb. 18. NOAA Fisheries has determined 75 percent of the 541,295-pound annual catch limit Read More »
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    Capt. Michael Joyce gets scare after weather forces him to abandon fishing seiner

    Lark Harbour, N.L. — Michael Joyce got a bad scare and was stomach sick for a few days, but he know things could have been much worse Read More »

  • From Down East to the Far East, lobster exports expand

    Stephanie Nadeau pulls two lobsters out of a pile and holds the pair up. One droops while the other swings out its claws and arcs its Read More »
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    Bill introduced allowing Hawaii’s foreign fishermen onshore

    Hundreds of foreign fishermen currently confined to vessels in Honolulu for years at a time would be allowed to come ashore when they dock under legislation Read More »
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    Whale entanglements, crab gear, and what can be done

    Whale populations are recovering, and whales are on the move early this year. That’s led to five humpback whale entanglements in crab gear, prompting the California Read More »
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    Crab Fisherman Zip-Ties a GoPro Camera Inside a Crab Pot – a Feeding Frenzy Ensues

    Have you ever wondered what happens inside crab pots when they’re underwater?  Fortuna resident Robert Wall decided to find out.  “My friend John said we should Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 57′ Aluminum Dragger with Federal & State Permits

    To review specifications, information, and 25 photos’, >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 06:44 Read More »

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