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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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  • Controversial flounder plan could get final approval Thursday

    A proposal to drastically reduce this year’s summer flounder catch could get final approval at a federal regulatory meeting Thursday morning in Virginia. The Atlantic States Read More »
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    Norh Carolina: Commercial fishermen are not yet alarmed by court ruling

    Although the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the state can be sued for alleged failure to protect North Carolina’s fisheries, state officials and advocates Read More »

  • Florida Fish and Wildlife arrest Four men for Fishery Violations

    “These individuals knew exactly what they were doing. They built their vessels specifically to hide fish, and we knew that,” Pino said. “The level of disregard Read More »
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    US citizens will suffer from a Hudson Canyon Marine Sanctuary

    On June 8 th, the Biden Administration announced its newest attack on American small businessmen by declaring the Hudson Canyon region as a protected marine sanctuary. Read More »
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    Wrangell woman recounts how she survived sinking that claimed her boyfriend and parrot

    Last month, Kelsey Leak lost a lot. First she lost her pet parrot, Petrie, of seven years. Then she lost her boyfriend, Arne Dahl, when his Read More »

  • Magnuson-Stevens reauthorization: Fisheries debate likely to heat up soon

    NEW BEDFORD — The fledgling Center for Sustainable Fisheries takes its message to Seattle, Wash. in February to stoke discussion of changes in the way commercial Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 45′ X 16’3″ Novi Scalloper/Lobster, 450HP Cummins QSMII Diesel

    To review specifications, information, and 35 photos’, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here< 11:09 Read More »

  • A Happy Ending! Fishermen rescue humpback whale in southwest N.B.

    It’s been a long week for a couple of Bay of Fundy fishermen that rescued a humpback whale that got trapped inside their weir nets. “It Read More »
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    Delcambre Shrimper Looses Boat, Livelihood and Dignity As Provider

    For every hurricane during the past 40-years Preston Dore has rode out the storms at the Delcambre docks on his shrimp boat. After Katrina, Gustav, Isaac Read More »
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    New SAR lifeboats for Canadian Coast Guard

    Public Services and Procurement Canada is set to acquire eight new SAR lifeboats from Chantier Naval Forillon and Hike Metal Products for the Canadian Coast Guard. Read More »

  • RCMP are seeking the public’s help in solving a canned clam caper in Le Goulet, N.B. (at least they left the canned seal meat behind) whew!

    Police say 360 cans of Sea Watch brand clams were stolen from a warehouse on Basile-Roussel Road. more@cbcnews! 16:14 Read More »

  • Bipartisan Congressional Push for Summer Flounder Assessment

    In a bipartisan letter submitted to Assistant Administrator for Fisheries Eileen Sobeck on Thursday, members of the stressed the importance of scheduling a benchmark assessment for Read More »

  • Montana investigating Walker’s former Alaska Fish Board appointee

    Jim Kropp, the director of law enforcement for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, said in a phone interview Monday that Roland Maw was under an active Read More »
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    Gulf of Mexico: 14-year Taylor Energy oil leak could be two times larger than BP spill

    A toppled oil platform that has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for more than 14 years may have released much more oil than recent Read More »

  • Canada’s Cooke Aquaculture buy’s Wanchese Fish Company, launches new company

    This deal and investment into the wild fishery comes in tandem with the creation of a new company,Cooke Seafood USA Inc, which “will provide another platform for future Read More »

  • Planning ramps up for SeaFeast, Bellingham’s new waterfront festival

    Commercial fishing and seafood processing employ more people in Whatcom County than Western Washington University, more than breweries and more than bike shops. Bellingham is on Read More »
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    Alaska Supreme Court hears challenge to fish landing tax

    Since the 1990s, Alaska has taxed seafood caught by factory trawlers and floating processors through the Fisheries Resource Landing Tax. Even though the fish is caught outside Read More »
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    ‘A force’: Former N.L. and federal cabinet minister John Efford has passed away

    Former federal and provincial cabinet minister John Efford is being remembered as “true icon” of Newfoundland and Labrador politics. He died Sunday at the age of Read More »

  • Conservationists seek permanent marine protection for Cashes Ledge off Cape Ann

    The Conservation Law Foundation, based in Boston, submitted a nomination to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today to designate Cashes Ledge as a sanctuary. National marine Read More »

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    Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273 Click here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. – We are Direct to Read More »
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    Columbia River Reforms – Change to gillnet policy stokes sport fishing anger

    In a vote that has angered the sport fishing community, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission (WFWC) has voted to alter the Columbia River Salmon Policy Read More »

  • FFAW’s 5-cent-a-pound lobster ‘levy’ most shocking of all secrets uncovered in 2016

    Of all the questions that have been raised about FFAW secrecy/conflict of interest in recent months, one of the most shocking discoveries was that the union Read More »

  • ‘Deadliest Catch’ Season 13: Captains Bill Wichrowski and Keith Colburn’s life more appealing than Josh Harris?

    Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” season 13 is already up for production and already a captain is not coming back. Rumors are swirling that the lives of Read More »

  • Fishermen, welfare-bums, friendly drinkers? East Coast stereotypes, fact or fiction

    British Columbians are left-wing pot-smoking radicals, Albertans are ultra-conservative cowboys and Ontarians believe they’re the centre of the universe. Then there’s Atlantic Canada, to most Canadians Read More »

  • The Eye in the Sky – Google, SkyTruth And Oceana Target Illegal Fishing With New Technology

    SkyTruth, Oceana and Google announced Global Fishing Watch, a big data technology platform that leverages satellite data to create the first global view of commercial fishing. Read More »

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