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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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  • Stronger restrictions adopted affecting California’s drift gill net fishery

    West Coast fishery managers on Monday adopted stringent regulations against California’s swordfish and thresher shark drift gill net fishery, laying the framework to more aggressively limit Read More »

  • UK industry support fund reopens for 2024

    Around £6 million in match funding is being made available to projects developing the catching, processing and aquaculture sectors, and those enhancing the marine environment, under Read More »
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    Commercial crab season delayed until at least Dec.15

    West Coast Dungeness crab Tri-State managers agreed Nov. 13 to delay the start of the 2019-20 season until at least Dec. 15 because crab are slow Read More »
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    Letter: New year brings new hope for the fishery – Francis Patey, St. Anthony

    As we move through January and discard the old calendar, we might ask ourselves what kind of year 2016 was for rural Newfoundland and Labrador. For Read More »
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    At-Sea Monitoring 2019 Coverage Levels and Reimbursement for Groundfish Sector Fishery

    NOAA Fisheries announces that for fishing year 2019 the total target at-sea monitoring coverage level is 31 percent of all groundfish sector trips. Additionally, for fishing Read More »

  • California’s new no-fishing zones appear to be working, scientists say

    “So far, so good,” said Mark Carr, a professor of marine biology at UC Santa Cruz. “There have been economic losses to fishermen,” said Zeke Grader, Read More »
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    Overboard California Fisherman Swims Five Hours to Safety

    After being thrown overboard, and as he watched his boat drift away from him, a fisherman knew that his only chance of survival was to swim Read More »

  • Greenpeace says Marine Stewardship Council is Living in Fisheries Fantasyland!

    Imagine if you’re sick or injured and your doctor gives you the ‘all clear’ while still developing your treatment plan. You’d get a new doctor, right? Read More »
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    Superseding Indictment Charges New York Fisherman with Conspiracy, Fraud and Obstruction

    A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York unsealed a superseding indictment charging a fisherman with both conspiracy and substantive charges in connection Read More »
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    Harpswell Lobster Boat Races to honor young lobsterman who died in crash

    This year’s Harpswell Lobster Boat Races will honor a young Harpswell lobsterman who died in a vehicle crash last fall by featuring his buoy colors on Read More »

  • Project launched to support fishermen in Pembrokeshire

    The Fishermen’s Mission is concerned about the ever-increasing need for support and assistance in coastal areas by struggling fishermen and are trying to bridge the gap Read More »

  • In the COSEWIC Crosshairs: West Prince eel fisherman fearful for eel fishery

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    One man’s mission to save a historic ship built a digital community

    At the beginning, which might otherwise have been the end, the ship was an empty shell, without mast or motor. Just a bathtub with a deck Read More »
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    NOAA – A Failed Agency, Part 2

    NOAA. What would I ask the commerce department to look for? I would ask to see the total budget plus the line-item expenditures for each division. Read More »

  • COMMENTARY: 40 years after Magnuson-Stevens, not all promises kept

    The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act turned 40 last week and federal and state fishery managers marked that event with an opinion piece in the Read More »

  • Government Helps Fund Advanced Halibut Tagging

    With support of the Provincial Government, the Fish Food and Allied Workers union (FFAW) and the Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research at the Fisheries and Marine Read More »

  • Fishermen organizing ‘flotilla’ protest against offshore wind

    In response to recent concerns over offshore wind and with debris washing up on Nantucket and Island beaches from a fractured turbine blade, the New England Read More »

  • Environmentalists, Fishermen At Odds Over Turning Cashes Ledge Into National Monument

    As some New England fishermen struggle under intense quota cuts, the industry is fearing another political move that could prove to have devastating consequences. There is Read More »

  • Energy giant, BP, has failed in a judicial bid to stop payments from a fishing compensation fund.

    The company claimed that some of the claimants did not suffer at all from the disastrous 2010 oil spill, and that in some cases names have Read More »
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    People trapped, 2.5M without power as Hurricane Ian drenches Florida

    Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, cutting off the only bridge to a barrier island, damaging the roof of Read More »

  • New Bedford fishing tycoon Carlos Rafael fighting move to dismiss lawsuit

    After Labor Day, as the weather cools off, a lawsuit against the state filed by local fishing industry tycoon Carlos Rafael will begin heating up in Read More »

  • Thursday: Challenges facing New England’s commercial fishing industry topic of public forum at RI College

    A panel of government regulators, scientists, environmental advocates and fishermen will try to answer questions about the future of one of New England’s most iconic and Read More »
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    The Big Fish

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  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 62′ Steel Longliner with Permit, 400HP Cummins

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  • Tributes to heroic ex-Grimsby skipper James ‘Jim’ Gamble following his death aged 97

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