Lobster fishers asked to relocate gear as Inshore Trawl Survey approaches Maine

October 14, 2015 New England

The fall inshore trawl survey is now underway in New Hampshire waters, working its way east to finish up about Oct. 30 near Machias Bay. The survey is being carried out this year aboard the F/V Robert Michael of Portland, Captained by Rob Tetrault, a white fiberglass Northeast 54’. The survey vessel will fish the first five good days each week, using the weekend to make up for bad weather or equipment problems. This should enable the survey to maintain a predictable schedule as it moves up the coast. Read the rest here 10:36

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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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