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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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  • Protesters rally against fracking as oil industry claims it is ‘safe’ by Dan Bacher

    “Last week, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced new lease-sales for Bureau of Land Management lands in California for ‘fracking’ development. Offshore areas are showing Read More »

  • OPINION: British Columbia: Your neighbors are watching

    Southeast Alaskans expressed concern today for the future of their most important salmon rivers after authorities in British Columbia announced the re-opening of Mount Polley mine Read More »
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    Long Beach council tells Hochul it is ‘fervently opposed’ to wind project

    The City of Long Beach is “fervently opposed” to the Empire Wind 2 project that proposes a high-voltage power line through its streets and turbines visible Read More »
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    U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Foreign Fishermen Have No Complaints Working On US longline vessels

    Federal officials said Thursday they have interviewed dozens of foreign crew members who work on U.S. commercial fishing boats since allegations of labor abuses surfaced, but haven’t found much Read More »
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    Maine Lobstermen’s Association Files Opening Brief in Appeal of Burdensome Federal Regulations

    The fight to save Maine’s iconic lobster industry has reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, as the Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) filed Read More »
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    What Would a British Columbia Seal and Sea Lion Cull Actually Entail?

    Cast an eye upon Canada’s Pacific coast and it shouldn’t take long to spot its most ubiquitous marine mammal, the harbor seal. At least 100,000 are Read More »
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    Commercial fisherman faces trial in Huron court

    A longtime commercial fisherman in the Sandusky area says he’s worried about going out of business if his company loses a trial in Huron next month. Read More »
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    Dungeness crab season closure has ‘cut off a key economic lifeline to small coastal fishing communities’

    A group of Oregon Dungeness crab fishers comprising nearly 10% of the state’s permitted commercial fleet sent an open letter this morning to the Oregon Department Read More »

  • Happy fourth birthday Brexit!

    On January 31 it will be four short years since the UK officially left the EU. The end of 47 years of membership was marked by Read More »

  • Video: Bitter cold weather is taking a toll on Portland’s fishing industry, and restaurants as well

    Because of the weather, fishermen can’t take advantage of the higher demand for their catch. “I think a lot of guys want to go fishing because Read More »

  • Maine Voices: A catch share system would be better than canceling the shrimp season

    The recent cancellation of the 2014 shrimp fishing season has been a devastating blow to Maine fishermen, many of whom rely heavily on the short yet Read More »

  • The crab kings

    Near the end of 1991, the residents of Bugøynes, then a village of about 300 people in Norway’s Arctic north, ran an ad in the national newspaper Dagbladet, begging Read More »

  • 2 Men Found Guilty of Commercial Fishing Violations

    A couple of commercial fishermen were found guilty of violations last week in Naknek. 46-year old Sergie Chukwak of Naknek was cited by the State Troopers for fishing during Read More »
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    I get a lot of e-mails. Sometimes, I’m quite surprised!

    Was going through the endless e-mails, and I found this, about a photographer in Washington that takes some magical photo’s of the people and vessels plying Read More »
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    Low fuel prices may have saved Gulf Coast shrimpers

    Texas shrimpers had a painfully low amount of shrimp harvested in the Gulf in 2020. It dropped from an annual average of 45-50 million pounds of Read More »

  • Newly released data reveals record number of cetacean deaths in UK waters

    Tragically, more than 1000 whales, dolphins and porpoises were stranded around the UK in 2018 – and it was a similar number the following year with Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 45′ Guimond Tuna/Lobster/Charter, Twin Cummins Diesels

    Specifications, information and 15 photo’s  click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:19 Read More »

  • Federal judge tosses another fisheries management rule

    Federal judges keep smacking down the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s decisions. For the second time in the last three months, a federal court has overturned Read More »

  • Fire at sea: US Coast Guard rescues two from commercial boat fire near Salish Sea

    The U.S. Coast Guard, Puget Sound Sector rescued two from a life raft after a fire broke out on the commercial boat they were on. On Read More »

  • By executive order, Gov. Walker merges Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission with Alaska F&G

    The move, suggested by cost-cutters for several years, is estimated to save the state $1.33 million per year in administrative costs, the governor said by email Read More »
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    Coronavirus: Letter from 200+ US seafood industry stakeholders to Trump Administration

    March 24, 2020, Dear President Trump.  We write as participants in America’s seafood supply chain, a critical component of the country’s domestic food infrastructure and one Read More »

  • Tracking endangered leatherback sea turtles by satellite, key habitats identified

    The study, part of doctoral research by Kara Dodge supervised by her advisor, Molly Lutcavage of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Large Pelagics Research Center (LPRC) Read More »

  • Retired commercial fisherman Hiram Allen Gerrish of Winter Harbor, Me. has passed away

    Hiram Allen Gerrish, 85, of Winter Harbor, passed peacefully at home June 20, 2024. He was born July 3, 1938, in Gerrishville, to parents Gib and Read More »

  • Whitby Seafoods Buys Scampi Trawler

    Whitby Seafoods is celebrating the purchase of Portavogie based fishing boat The Golden Ray. The Golden Ray B963 is a scampi trawler skippered by third generation Read More »

  • Trans-Pacific Partnership – Obama’s ugly show of presidential petulance

    When the going got tough, Barack got in a huff, and then he got gruff. President Obama has worked himself into such a tizzy over the Read More »

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