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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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    Fully-grown carp in healthy ecosystems typically top 25 pounds. In the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, where carp have completely devastated the ecosystem and dominated the fish Read More »

  • North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for May 8, 2015

    Click to read  Weekly Update for May 8, 2015 as a PDF To read all the updates, click here  20:50 Read More »
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    Last call at Mitch’s

    The news that Mitch’s was closing for good arrived with all the notice of a pink slip, hearkening the wisdom of former Red Sox manager Joe Read More »
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    French and Jersey fishermen meet for first time since Harbour blockade

    The meeting this month was the first since Norman and Breton fishing vessels blockaded the Harbour in May last year in a protest over post-Brexit fishing Read More »

  • New England’s Wild Fish Oil – Skate liver oil could boost fishing industry

    Two engineers showed up at the Chatham Fish Pier a few winters ago and struck up a conversation with some fishermen who were unloading their catch. Read More »

  • David Sikes: Seagrass protection still a hot topic in state legislature

    CORPUS CHRISTI — State Rep. Geanie Morrison of Victoria filed legislation this past week that would outlaw the uprooting of seagrass throughout the entire Texas coast. Read More »
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    Crab season is open, but N.L.’s fishermen are staying on land — and demanding a better price

    “It’s not feasible for us to be able to fish. There’s no way to do it for $2.20 a pound with the cost of everything else Read More »

  • Right whales and offshore wind: reflections on an uneasy coexistence

    Michael Moore has spent decades studying North Atlantic right whales. He’s seen somewhere around 150 of them. It’s a feat, given that now there are just Read More »
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    Varick Frissell: the New England Filmmaker Who Died in the Biggest Hollywood Disaster Ever

    In 1930, Varick Frissell traveled north to Canada to make what would turn out to be the deadliest movie ever. Twenty-six people would die in the Read More »

  • NOAA’s Fisheries Service Seeks Comments on Proposal to List Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks under Endangered Species Act

    WASHINGTON, April 4 — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news release: NOAA’s Fisheries Service, in response to a Read More »
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    Entanglement blame game good for wallets, not for whales

    In response to the dissemination of “misleading and false information” about the Maine lobster fishery and their interaction with right whales, not even the federal government Read More »
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    2018 Togiak herring forecast to be a little larger than 2017, according to ADF&G

    The state has released its forecast for the 2018 Togiak herring fishery. The total forecasted biomass of 136,756 tons of Pacific herring will allow a combined Read More »

  • Federal Jury Convicts Montauk Fisherman

    A federal jury convicted a Montauk fisherman on Wednesday of falsifying records in order to sell fluke and black sea bass in quantities that vastly exceeded Read More »

  • Gillnet fishermen work to reduce porpoise bycatch, are continuing to make concerted, proactive choices

    Preliminary data from October indicates that delaying the consequence closure of the gillnet fishery did not have a negative impact on harbor porpoises. The National Oceanic and Read More »

  • Video: Coast Guard medevacs injured fisherman 70 miles off Barnegat Light, NJ

    The Coast Guard medevaced a 49-year-old man Wednesday 70 miles east of Barnegat Light, New Jersey. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay in Philadelphia received Read More »
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    Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel 15 miles west of Coos Bay

    U.S. Coast Guard 13th District PA Detachment Astoria – A Coast Guard aircrew medically evacuated a 28-year-old man Friday morning off the fishing vessel ‘Alaska Ocean,’ Read More »

  • Race to the bottom: The politics of fishing

    http://www2.tbo.com/news/opinion/2012/sep/04/naopino2-race-to-the-bottom-the-politics-of-fishin-ar-482230/ Read More »

  • Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Preferred Price List for November 7th 2016 Has Arrived!

    Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273 Click here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. We are Direct to the Read More »

  • Tagged in New York, Killed in Costa Rica: Beamer the Shark

    Beamer was a blue shark that used to enjoy swimming in the chilly waters off Montauk, New York. Last year, Beamer began swimming south towards the Read More »
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    Radical Wind Farm Activists Blame Blue-Collar Fishermen for Whale Deaths

    Dead whales are washing ashore on the East Coast at a disturbing clip. But many radical environmentalists, purported friends of the poor sea creatures, are hard Read More »

  • Obama Proposes New Rules For Offshore Oil Wells – How about Observer Coverage??

    The proposal Monday by the Interior Department builds on standards industry has set for so-called blowout preventers since the April 2010 disaster on the Deepwater Horizon Read More »
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    Natural Connections: The Lake Superior Fishery in Wisconsin Waters

    The boat engine rumbled and machinery whirred as a gillnet rose from the depths of Lake Superior. Captain Ross Lind managed the throttle so that the Read More »

  • Limits set on bigeye tuna catches in Pacific – World Wildlife Fund says move by fishing panel doesn’t go far enough. Yeah yeah. We know.

    The WWF’s Peter Trott criticized the system, saying plans to put monitors on boats would cover as little as 5 percent of the fishing fleets for Read More »

  • How Government shutdown will Affect NOAA Emloyees and other agency’s

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, based in Silver Spring,  will lose about half of its staff in the face of a shutdown. According to a  Read More »

  • Furey says changes to cod catch are an ‘affront’ to N.L. in letter to federal fisheries minister

    In a letter to Diane Lebouthillier, dated July 3, Furey says the provincial government is concerned about the changes, announced June 26. “Changes that provide increased Read More »

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