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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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Jury awards lobsterman nearly $850,000 over botched hernia surgery at EMMC
A Penobscot County jury on Thursday awarded an Ellsworth man nearly $850,000 for a botched hernia operation that required additional hospitalizations to correct and kept him Read More » -
Fisheries Minister Jordan to oversee fisheries, coast guard in new federal cabinet
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Sri Lanka releases 126 Indian fishermen
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Lloyd leaves Kodiak fisheries consultant post for Anchorage position
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Falling Asleep on Watch-Crew Fatigue Led to the Grounding and Loss of F/V Freyja
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Louisiana: First catches of shrimp season ‘not too good’
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Oak Island, NC – Dozens of dead sharks found washed ashore
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Deal reached in Newfoundland and Labrador crab fishery, harvesters to start fishing
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P.E.I.’s fall lobster fishery coping with low prices and high costs
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Sen. Susan Collins Moves to Block Stricter Rules Protecting Endangered Whales
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FFAW-Unifor Statement on FISH-NL Application to Labour Board
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Hurricane Irma: “The fishing industry in the Keys is frozen, paralyzed. We’re literally in a state of shock,”
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Totally Unacceptable! Shell given OK to take 21 days to cap a deep well oil blowout off N.S. coast
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More Pew Drivel – Global fisheries are declining but can still recover, study says. By Juliet Eilperin.
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DFO’s Inaugural Citizen Science Cod Project – creates cod assessment data, community involvement
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F/V Villa de Pitanxo: Fishing vessel arrives in St. Johns with three survivors and seven deceased crewmen
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State Rep. Goldfinch applauded for stance against offshore no-fishing zones
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‘We won’: Clearwater Seafoods deal gives Mi’kmaq control of lucrative ocean stretch
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Pushing pogy boats farther from Louisiana coast could dampen profits, kill jobs, report warns
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