NEFMC giving $450K to fish research projects

March 23, 2015 New England

The New England Fishery Management Council is funding the work. One project will seek to develop ways for cod and haddock fishermen to avoid accidentally catching flatfish in Georges Bank. Another will assess the performance of fishing gear designed to avoid accidental catch of windowpane flounder. A third project seeks to improve capture and handling methods for haddock discarded in recreational Gulf of Maine fisheries. A final project will assess recreational haddock discard mortality on Jeffreys Ledge. Read the rest here 06:54

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2 Responses to NEFMC giving $450K to fish research projects

Rocky Novello says:

March 23, 2015 at 5:33 pm

More tax payer money being wasted on useless research grants . We already have the perfect net ,that eliminates flat-fish by catch and codfish by catch . The chain-raised foot rope trawl has been around since 1990s , and I and many other fishing captains who have used this net which, is the best eliminator of by catch in our life time of fishing in the G.O.M., THE PROBLEM IS G.O.M. HAS STRICTER REGULATIONS HOW THE NET IS RIGGED THAN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND AND GEORGES BANK AREAS .

NEFMC SHOULD REALIZE THAT NETS CATCH FISH AND THE LONGER THE LEGS AND GROUND CABLES ARE, THIS CATCHES YOUR BY-CATCH !!

USE CHAIN-RAISED FOOTROPE TRAWL AS SPECIFIED , TO BE USED IN GULF OF MAINE THROUGH OUT ALL AREAS, BY-CATCH WILL BE GREATLY REDUCED !!

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StripedBassHole says:

March 23, 2015 at 9:54 pm

That will buy one PANT LOAD of COMPUTERS. Can Hillary’s SERVER support that many???

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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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