New Quotas Announced for Mackerel and Butterfish Fisheries – National Marine Fisheries Service,

January 15, 2013 Mid Atlantic

Through this action, the butterfish mortality cap will also be increased by 1,299 mt (141 percent increase over the 2012 butterfish mortality cap). The increased butterfish mortality cap will allow the longfin squid fishery to fish long

er and obtain their full longfin squid allocation. The Atlantic mackerel quota is unchanged from 2012 and is being implemented for 3 years, from 2013 through 2015

Effective Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Read the Bulletin

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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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