eel nets

April 22, 2016

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
April 2025

M T W T F S S

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30

« Mar

April 2025
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30

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

Recent Posts
- Next round of Walker fishery appointments closely watched
  
  Commercial fishermen who make their living in federal waters off Alaska are watching as Gov. Bill Walker prepares to announce a set of appointments to the Read More »
- Just Now!! The first loads of Mackerel are being unloaded in New Bedford!
  
  The first loads of Mackerel are being unloaded in New Bedford by the Midwater pair Enterprise and Retriever. The fish are rumored to be high quality Read More »
- Shrimp size on the rise after Hurricane Matthew
  
  In the midst of fallen trees and other debris, Hurricane Matthew left a sweet little calling card: shrimp, big ones. The storm’s rain and river flooding Read More »
- U.S. Coast Guard announces formal investigation into F/V Coastal Reign capsizing
  
  The Coast Guard announced today a formal marine casualty investigation has been convened into the marine casualty of the commercial fishing vessel Coastal Reign which capsized Read More »
- New England/Mid-Atlantic – Illex Squid Directed Fishery Closes August 15
  
  Effective at noon on August 15, 2018, vessels are prohibited from fishing for or landing more than 10,000 lb of Illex squid per trip per calendar Read More »
- 10 times more fish in the sea? Context matters.
  
  Earlier this year, a research team from Spain released a surprising new estimate of mesopelagic fish biomass that is 10 times greater than previous estimates. This Read More »
- Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville sets port condition Whiskey for Port of Jacksonville, Fernandina for Tropical Storm Ian
  
  Effective 8 p.m. Saturday, the Coast Guard Captain of the Port for Jacksonville (COTP) set port condition Whiskey for the Port of Jacksonville and Fernandina due Read More »
- Coast Guard medevacs crewman from F/V Poncho 60 miles south of Intracoastal City
  
  NEW ORLEANS — A Coast Guard aircrew medevaced a 45-year-old crewman from a 100-foot shrimper approximately 60 miles south of Intracoastal City in the Gulf of Mexico, Thursday. more@uscgnews Read More »
- A mystery is born: Where are all the baby lobsters?
  
  Biologists and lobstermen are growing increasingly worried that the state’s most valuable fishery, which in recent years has boasted record volume and value and accounts for Read More »
- “We felt safer on the boat” – Families on Bayou Grand Caillou left homeless after Hurricane Ida
  
  Ida’s intense winds pushed the home mother-to-be Mauldin shared with her boyfriend and his family from its 4-foot concrete pillars onto the ground. The foundation broken Read More »
- NOAA ’13 report is bleakest yet – Data shows 4-year lows in landings, revenues
  
  The Northeast Multispecies Groundfish Fishery hit four-year lows in just about every pivotal category during the 2013 fishing season, including landings, revenues and the number of Read More »
- Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 42′ Fiberglass Lobster boat, 500HP, 6 Cylinder Volvo D9 Diesel, “like new” condition!
  
  Specifications, information and 14 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:31 Read More »
- Major salmon escape at a Cooke aquaculture site in Hermitage Bay – The Fisheries Broadcast with Jamie Baker
  
  Cooke Aquaculture says it lost up to 20,000 salmon from a sea cage on the south coast last week. The company said high tide and unusually Read More »
- Alaska Senator Murkowski unveils blueprint for energy policy
  
  Murkowski’s “Energy 20/20” proposal is sweeping in scope. Murkowski wants oil leasing off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. She wants an increase Read More »
- Nova Scotia lobster pound owner wins appeal of ‘grossly disproportionate’ 2-year suspension
  
  The Nova Scotia Supreme Court has overturned a two-year ban from the lobster business imposed on a pound owner caught with lobster harvested under an Indigenous Read More »
- N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries drops Commercial red drum harvest limit
  
  The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries has announced a reduction in how many red drum commercial fishermen may harvest while fisheries officials assess the landing totals Read More »
- New Brunswick fisherman hauls in rare ‘ghost lobster’
  
  A New Brunswick lobster fisherman has beaten the odds by catching a rare albino lobster. Eugene Richard, 64, caught the “ghost lobster” on Tuesday in the Northumberland Read More »
- Letter: Save N.C. commercial fishermen
  
  What is the REAL reason behind trying to limit the number of commercial fishing licenses? Did you know that a Commercial Fishing License, by itself, only Read More »
- Florida Supreme Court Upholds Net Ban
  
  Florida’s Supreme Court this week denied a petition by commercial fishermen to overturn the state’s Constitutional amendment banning gillnets. The ruling from the state’s highest court Read More »
- Six year US Tuna Treaty, illegal fishing highlighted in Pacific Island Forum report card
  
  Matai Seremaiah Nawalu, Chair of the Forum Fisheries Committee Ministers, told leaders that while there’s additional administrative and individual processes to complete, the Pacific negotiators have Read More »
- The Washington fishing-industry battle over a federal council seat escalates
  
  The Washington fishing-industry battle over a seat on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council has escalated as four industry groups sent a Thursday letter to Secretary of Commerce Read More »
- Kenai Peninsula Borough to ask feds for fishery disaster declaration
  
  The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly voted Tuesday to ask the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to declare a sockeye salmon fisheries failure and economic disaster in the Read More »
- Prince Edward Island: Fishermen wary of new gear mandated by DFO to protect whales
  
  The federal government is making it mandatory for fishing crews to use the new gear as of January 2023. The ropes are designed to break more Read More »
- Fairness in Scheduling and the Targeted Elimination of the Small-Boat Fleet
  
  Three weeks into the snow crab fishery and dozens of attempts made to work out a fair arrangement for fish harvesters, FFAW-Unifor is calling on the Read More »
- First Dungeness crab loads reach Marin docks
  
  The first commercially fished Dungeness crab arrived on Marin docks Saturday, much to the delight of shellfish lovers amped to crack open some shells. Western Boat Read More »

Archives
- April 2025 (47)
- March 2025 (176)
- February 2025 (156)
- January 2025 (172)
- December 2024 (157)
- November 2024 (161)
- October 2024 (170)
- September 2024 (180)
- August 2024 (178)
- July 2024 (171)
- June 2024 (172)
- May 2024 (191)
- April 2024 (191)
- March 2024 (209)
- February 2024 (192)
- January 2024 (211)
- December 2023 (187)
- November 2023 (201)
- October 2023 (180)
- September 2023 (101)
- August 2023 (240)
- July 2023 (237)
- June 2023 (211)
- May 2023 (231)
- April 2023 (209)
- March 2023 (215)
- February 2023 (179)
- January 2023 (187)
- December 2022 (177)
- November 2022 (187)
- October 2022 (190)
- September 2022 (175)
- August 2022 (203)
- July 2022 (186)
- June 2022 (184)
- May 2022 (186)
- April 2022 (190)
- March 2022 (216)
- February 2022 (166)
- January 2022 (191)
- December 2021 (190)
- November 2021 (182)
- October 2021 (196)
- September 2021 (197)
- August 2021 (203)
- July 2021 (220)
- June 2021 (211)
- May 2021 (220)
- April 2021 (204)
- March 2021 (201)
- February 2021 (187)
- January 2021 (194)
- December 2020 (191)
- November 2020 (181)
- October 2020 (204)
- September 2020 (194)
- August 2020 (189)
- July 2020 (204)
- June 2020 (193)
- May 2020 (224)
- April 2020 (218)
- March 2020 (215)
- February 2020 (209)
- January 2020 (232)
- December 2019 (226)
- November 2019 (240)
- October 2019 (241)
- September 2019 (240)
- August 2019 (270)
- July 2019 (287)
- June 2019 (270)
- May 2019 (263)
- April 2019 (223)
- March 2019 (210)
- February 2019 (155)
- January 2019 (117)
- December 2018 (216)
- November 2018 (167)
- October 2018 (217)
- September 2018 (247)
- August 2018 (258)
- July 2018 (258)
- June 2018 (249)
- May 2018 (251)
- April 2018 (244)
- March 2018 (266)
- February 2018 (254)
- January 2018 (278)
- December 2017 (308)
- November 2017 (280)
- October 2017 (288)
- September 2017 (274)
- August 2017 (284)
- July 2017 (287)
- June 2017 (272)
- May 2017 (275)
- April 2017 (274)
- March 2017 (299)
- February 2017 (252)
- January 2017 (288)
- December 2016 (262)
- November 2016 (267)
- October 2016 (284)
- September 2016 (284)
- August 2016 (292)
- July 2016 (285)
- June 2016 (272)
- May 2016 (244)
- April 2016 (267)
- March 2016 (260)
- February 2016 (265)
- January 2016 (267)
- December 2015 (265)
- November 2015 (279)
- October 2015 (288)
- September 2015 (286)
- August 2015 (298)
- July 2015 (294)
- June 2015 (327)
- May 2015 (315)
- April 2015 (317)
- March 2015 (323)
- February 2015 (300)
- January 2015 (332)
- December 2014 (321)
- November 2014 (330)
- October 2014 (381)
- September 2014 (340)
- August 2014 (347)
- July 2014 (375)
- June 2014 (401)
- May 2014 (344)
- April 2014 (341)
- March 2014 (375)
- February 2014 (374)
- January 2014 (360)
- December 2013 (294)
- November 2013 (372)
- October 2013 (391)
- September 2013 (461)
- August 2013 (566)
- July 2013 (526)
- June 2013 (447)
- May 2013 (475)
- April 2013 (508)
- March 2013 (459)
- February 2013 (352)
- January 2013 (265)
- December 2012 (206)
- November 2012 (168)
- October 2012 (187)
- September 2012 (126)
- August 2012 (4)

FISHERYNATION.COM

continuously updated

eel nets

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date

The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

Next round of Walker fishery appointments closely watched

Just Now!! The first loads of Mackerel are being unloaded in New Bedford!

Shrimp size on the rise after Hurricane Matthew

U.S. Coast Guard announces formal investigation into F/V Coastal Reign capsizing

New England/Mid-Atlantic – Illex Squid Directed Fishery Closes August 15

10 times more fish in the sea? Context matters.

Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville sets port condition Whiskey for Port of Jacksonville, Fernandina for Tropical Storm Ian

Coast Guard medevacs crewman from F/V Poncho 60 miles south of Intracoastal City

A mystery is born: Where are all the baby lobsters?

“We felt safer on the boat” – Families on Bayou Grand Caillou left homeless after Hurricane Ida

NOAA ’13 report is bleakest yet – Data shows 4-year lows in landings, revenues

Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 42′ Fiberglass Lobster boat, 500HP, 6 Cylinder Volvo D9 Diesel, “like new” condition!

Major salmon escape at a Cooke aquaculture site in Hermitage Bay – The Fisheries Broadcast with Jamie Baker

Alaska Senator Murkowski unveils blueprint for energy policy

Nova Scotia lobster pound owner wins appeal of ‘grossly disproportionate’ 2-year suspension

N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries drops Commercial red drum harvest limit

New Brunswick fisherman hauls in rare ‘ghost lobster’

Letter: Save N.C. commercial fishermen

Florida Supreme Court Upholds Net Ban

Six year US Tuna Treaty, illegal fishing highlighted in Pacific Island Forum report card

The Washington fishing-industry battle over a federal council seat escalates

Kenai Peninsula Borough to ask feds for fishery disaster declaration

Prince Edward Island: Fishermen wary of new gear mandated by DFO to protect whales

Fairness in Scheduling and the Targeted Elimination of the Small-Boat Fleet

First Dungeness crab loads reach Marin docks

Archives

Comments

Facebook

Recent Posts

Meta

continuously updated

eel nets

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date

Recent Posts

Archives

Tags

Comments

Facebook

Recent Posts

Tags

Meta