Stonington Maine tops state with $60 million in landings

November 3, 2015 New England

If it seems that there have been a lot of fancy new pickups on the roads of Deer Isle recently, NOAA Fisheries may know the reason why. Last week, the federal fisheries agency issued its annual Fisheries of the U.S. Report for 2014. Among the statistics buried in the 135-page tome was the value of commercial fisheries landings in Stonington during the year: $60 million. That represents an increase of $11 million — 22.4 percent — over the $49 million catch landed in the island town during 2013. Read the rest here 07:53

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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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