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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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    UPDATED! Video: Coast Guard aircrew hoists 2 people from grounded fishing vessel in Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey

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    Boris Johnson’s Looming Wind Disaster. Its coming here, and is being sold by huckster politicians

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    1 year after tragic sinking, St. Lawrence marks anniversary with memorials to those lost at sea

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  • Robots with Machine Vision Classify Fishing Catches Accurately

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    Western Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting in Garapan, Saipan October 23-24, 2018

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    After working with four generations of Inshore Fisheries family, Yarmouth County woman getting set to retire

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    Search suspended for crewman who went overboard from New Bedford fishing vessel

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