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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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  • Lottsa bag slashing he-ah. Elver fishermen flocking to the Penobscot River

    “There’s a lot of bag-cutting and stealing on this river,”. “[Some people] are just hostile,” Tibbetts said. “Everybody seems to own a piece of river and Read More »

  • 1 In 30 Million: Rare Yellow Lobster Caught Off Nantucket

    Jim Sjolund, captain of the Nantucket lobster boat Julie Alice, was hauling traps about 25 miles east of the island on Friday when his sternman Adam Read More »

  • NOAA Regional Administrator John K. Bullard Sticks to his guns over at-sea monitoring battle

    Bullard’s letter on Tuesday to NEFMC Executive Director Tom Nies followed the same rejective tone as his letter about two weeks ago that rejected the council Read More »

  • Oregon Man Sentenced For Commercial Fishing Crimes – SitNews

    According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Cooper, the evidence established that Freddie Joe Hankins, 47, of Cove, Oregon, had caught the halibut in an area where Read More »

  • American Samoa – Marina off-limits to longliners

    It seems there’s no end to the bad news hitting the American Samoa longline fleet. Today owners of commercial fishing vessels began moving their boats away from Read More »

  • Oahu fishing vessel master pleads guilty, sentenced for sleeping while ship underway

    Oahu resident Kevin Lam pleaded guilty to eight charges of operating a commercial fishing vessel in a grossly negligent manner on Friday and received a sentence Read More »

  • NEFMC March 27, 2014 meeting of the SSC beginning at 8:30 a.m.

    The SSC Meeting will be held on Thursday, March 27 at the Omni Hotel in Providence, RI Discussion Documents  Webinar Registration  07:39 Read More »
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    Brexit has left us all at sea – even the fishing industry

    Teething troubles? Bumps in the road? Pull the other one, Mr Gove. As the daily news from fishing crews, farmers, road hauliers, wine merchants, musicians and Read More »
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    Little red salmon

    The wolves of Southwest Alaska share something in common with the wolves of Denali, according to a new National Park Service-sponsored study, they love fish – Read More »
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    20 crew members on vessel in Dutch Harbor test positive for COVID-19 in latest seafood industry outbreak

    A factory trawler joined a growing list of seafood processors and vessels in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands that have experienced COVID-19 outbreaks recently. Twenty members of the Read More »

  • Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries: Greater amberjack commercial season to close

    BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State wildlife and fisheries officials say the 2013 commercial fishing season for greater amberjack will close on Monday at 12:01 a.m. Read More »

  • OP-ED: Fears Mount over NPFMC halibut bycatch quota vote

    I have been an Alaskan since 1996. I live and work in Dutch Harbor and have built a labor and equipment company providing services to the Read More »

  • Millions for harbor infrastructure improvements in West Nova

    “As you know, commercial fishing is the cornerstone of many coastal communities across the province and the country,” Fraser said. “In 2015 commercial fishing contributed $6 Read More »

  • For Florida’s blue crab trappers, it’s been a good year; and that is excellent news for diners

    As pre-dawn glowed fiery orange over the Caloosahatchee River, commercial fishermen Joe Williamson and Kevin Killian pulled their first blue crab trap of the day. Inside Read More »

  • Pew gears up for Blue Fin Tuna fight with ICCAT over Catch Quota’s with working group meeting in Montreal, June 26 to 28

    This week, fisheries managers and scientists from around the world will meet in Canada and shape the fate of the western Atlantic bluefin tuna, signaling whether Read More »
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    They’re Ready! P.E.I. 2021 spring lobster season – ‘Things look a lot more positive this year than they were a year ago’

    Last spring, as uncertainty due to Coronavirus, reined worldwide and the lobster industry struggled with a two-week delay to the season, securing workers and keeping them Read More »
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    Lawmakers issue strong rebuke after con group adds lobster to ‘red list’

    Seafood Watch, a conservation organization based at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, this week put North Atlantic lobster on its “red list” of seafood to Read More »

  • BREAKING: Investigators Surround Sturgeon Bay Fish Business

    State and federal investigators spent the day at a Sturgeon Bay business. DNR conservation wardens stood guard outside Dan’s Fish, Incorporated. Other investigators could be seen Read More »
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    Oregon: Dungeness Crab season begins

    Newport crabbers were treated to great weather, a rare on-time start and a high opening price as they kicked off what will likely be a historic Read More »

  • VIDEO: Dredging the Oregon Inlet

    The U.S. army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, started recently dredging operations at the Oregon Inlet in order to remove the shoaling that has been obstructing Read More »

  • North Carolina Fisheries Association – SPECIAL UPDATE!!!

    SPECIAL UPDATE!!! Attached above is a pdf flyer for several meetings this coming Monday, January 25th, all to be held at the Riverfront Convention Center in New Bern. Please Read More »

  • Coast Guard searching for missing fisherman John Aldridge, a crewmember of the F/V Anna Mary,near Montauk

    Coast Guard watchstanders at Sector Long Island Sound, in New Haven, Conn., were contacted by a local fisherman, at approximately 6:30 a.m., reporting that a male Read More »
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    DMF Sends Hurricane Florence Commercial Fishing Relief Checks

    Gov. Roy Cooper’s office announced Friday that a second round of assistance checks is on the way to North Carolina commercial fishermen affected by Hurricane Florence. Read More »
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    It’s Very Bad. Incredible Hurricane Ida’s remnants swamp Northeast; at least 8 deaths linked to flooding

    The remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped historic rain over New York City, with at least nine deaths linked to flooding in the region, as it swamped Read More »
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    California passes bill to ban drift net fishing

    California is set to officially ban commercial fishermen from using drift nets off its coasts. The state legislature passed a bill Thursday that would make it Read More »

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