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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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    Tumby Bay business concerned for fish prices

    A Tumby Bay business owner is concerned how pressure put on commercial fishers and the rising number of recreational fishers will affect fish prices going forward. Read More »
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    Doctor becomes friend after he saves local fisherman’s arm

    A Narragansett fisherman, Capt. David Tyrrell, nearly died after a serious onboard accident three years ago. Thanks to a miraculous medical procedure from Lifespan orthopedics surgeon Read More »

  • New chairman at the helm of the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission: commercial fisherman Sammy Corbett

    The N.C. Fisheries Association, a nonprofit that supports the state’s seafood industry, is pleased with Mr. Corbett’s appointment. NCFA Executive Director Jerry Schill said Monday he Read More »

  • Cod-Pricing Agreement Reached Between FFAW and Plant – efforts must be made for an eventual return to cod fishing.

    A cod-pricing agreement has been reached between the FFAW and one of the few plants in the province interested in processing cod. The union reached a Read More »
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    23 people charged in lobster pound ransacking in southwest N.S.

    Yarmouth provincial court will be cramped on March 29. That’s when 23 people are due to appear on charges related to the ransacking of a Middle Read More »

  • Georgia Red fish protected from Commercial Fishermen under House bill

    The red fish, or red drum, Georgia’s state saltwater fish, would be protected from commercial fishing under legislation approved Monday in the state House. It would Read More »
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    Three rescued as shrimp boat catches fire off Jekyll

    Three people were rescued about 4 miles off shore of Jekyll Island Friday after jumping from a burning shrimp boat that sent a plume of black Read More »

  • Commercial Fisherman in mutilated crab case found not guilty

    Judge Thomas Nave found commercial fisherman Charles Blattner, 47, not guilty of the fishing violation that an Alaska Wildlife Trooper cited Blattner for on Feb. 6. Read More »

  • Maintaining Maine’s scallop fishery By Robin Alden, Special to the BDN

    Of course, it hasn’t been perfect. But after this year, some fishermen and some managers realize that this is, inevitably, the start of a process of Read More »

  • LIPA to pursue 11 solar arrays in Suffolk, reject offshore wind farm

    Wind energy advocates came out in force to express dismay that the offshore project didn’t make the cut. Peter Gollon, chair of the local Sierra Club’s Read More »
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    Documents Reveal ‘Catastrophic Impact’ Right Whale Protections Could Have On Lobster Industry

    Newly released documents by Maine’s Department of Resources are providing a glimpse of what federal action to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales could look like Read More »
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    Coast Guard crews tow disabled fishing boat near Buzzards Bay

    Coast Guard crews from Stations Woods Hole and Menemsha towed the 65-foot fishing vessel Leonardo, with six people aboard, Wednesday when it became disabled after running Read More »

  • Ocean Executive nets aid for online trading platform

    Our technology will help streamline the sales and marketing process for a wide range of seafood companies, not just locally, but across the globe,” Ocean Executive Read More »

  • The Clam House in Palmetto is the Last of Its Kind

    Brinkley isn’t making buggy whips, he’s a commercial fisherman and a successful one at that. But over the last decade, commercial fishing has changed and due Read More »

  • South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting December 2-6, 2013 – Wilmington, NC

    Meeting Postcard   Meeting Agenda   Briefing Book Materials  Webinar Registration: Watch the meeting LIVE as it happens – Sign up for daily Webinars below. Info here  16:21 Read More »
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    New Year’s traditional ceremony at Fukushima port

    Fishers at one of the northeastern Japanese ports damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami have held a traditional ceremony to mark the New Year. Ukedo Read More »
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    North Pacific fish council enters Pebble debate, over state’s objections

    The state of Alaska believes the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is overstepping its bounds, by weighing in on the Pebble Mine Project in Bristol Bay. Read More »

  • “We were primed to make some money,” – Georgia’s shrimping season a disaster

    Jim Page, a marine biologist with the DNR Coastal Resources Division, says sample trawls along the coast show shrimp catches had been well below average throughout Read More »

  • Letter: Time for changes to Maguson Act – Tony Austin, Hubert, N.C.

    The Magnuson-Stevens Act, enacted in 1976, set up the council system, has been reauthorized by Congress several times, and has become like “Matun, the old blind Read More »

  • EXTRA!!! Weinstein Wins Movie Rights to N.Y. Times Ocean Rescue Story

    Harvey Weinstein has won a bidding war for movie rights to Paul Tough’s rescue story “A Speck in the Sea.” The story focused on lobster fisherman Read More »

  • WATCH: Blue lobster molting at Maine State Aquarium

    The Maine State Aquarium says their maintenance team caught Lila the blue lobster molting earlier this week.  Typically, lobsters shed once a year once they are Read More »

  • Animal Planet’s Alaska: Battle on the Bay – 1,800 Captains Battle Nature, the Law and Each Other for the Ultimate Fishing Payday

    On the bay, the arm of the law is long, tempers are short and every single decision is the difference between drawing a huge income and Read More »

  • Maine Lobstermans integrity is upheld in court when cleared of unlicensed fishing charge

    Every once in a while, a case comes along that serves as a reminder that Maine courts, like the state’s many law enforcement agencies, are a Read More »
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    Coast Guard assists after F/V Aquarius sinks near Florence, Ore. with loss of life

    Coast Guard crews responded to a fishing vessel crew who abandoned ship in the early morning hours Monday near Florence. At approximately 1:50 a.m., Coast Guard Read More »
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    FISH-NL: Northern cod fall fishery a circus, breeding unrest and contempt between fishermen and fleets

    The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) calls FFAW/Unifor-orchestrated changes to this fall’s northern cod stewardship fishery a circus, and the most Read More »

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