Commercial harvest of Atlantic dolphin from Maine to Florida Closed

June 24, 2015 Mid Atlantic, New England, South Atlantic

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the commercial harvest of Atlantic dolphin from Maine through the east coast of Florida will be closed at 12:01 a.m. EDT Wednesday. Commercial harvest will reopen at 12:01 a.m. EST Jan. 1, 2016. Reports indicate that landings are approaching the 2015 catch limit for the commercial sector. The operator of a vessel with a federal commercial permit for dolphin-wahoo that is landing dolphin for sale must have landed and bartered, traded, or sold such dolphin before 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. Read the rest here 08:00

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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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