Press Release: MAFMC – Reminder: Public Hearings to Begin Today for the Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Cost Recovery Amendment

January 12, 2015 Mid Atlantic

The Cost Recovery Amendment to the Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Fishery Management Plan (FMP) includes proposed measures to 1) collect fees and recover costs associated with the management of the surfclam and ocean quahog individual transferable quota (ITQ) fisheries, 2) facilitate incorporation of revised stock status determination criteria (i.e., biological reference points) into the FMP, and 3) modify or eliminate the optimum yield (OY) ranges currently in the FMP. Locations, Times, webinar links, Click here 11:11

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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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