Crew member, employer receive citations for falsified fishing license

October 27, 2015 North Pacific

A Washington man was cited for employing an unlicensed crew member when authorities discovered that the crew member’s commercial fishing license was falsified. According to Wildlife Troopers in Dutch Harbor, Michael L. James of Townsend Montana was in possession of a duplicated commercial crew member’s license while aboard the F/V Gulf Prowler. James received citations for falsifying the license and unlicensed commercial fishing. James’s employer, Gary Asgeinsson, also received a citation,,, Read the rest here 08:56

Crew member, employer, F/V Gulf Prowler, Michael L. James, receive citations for falsified fishing license, unlicensed commercial fishing, Wildlife Troopers in Dutch Harbor

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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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