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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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TRADEX 3MMI – Strong Halibut Pricing Expected to Stay, American Flounder Market Overtaken by Alaska Plaice
3-Minute Market Insight: Fresh pricing on Halibut stays strong in Alaska, as we approach the November 7th season closure. Black Cod, also set to end, has been Read More » -
Exclusive: Canada fisheries protest US-proposed IUU Fishing Enforcement Act Import Rules
Fisheries in Canada and other countries are protesting new efforts by United States to curb illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) imports, arguing they already have documentation Read More » -
Study maps accidental killings of sea turtles
Sea turtles can get accidentally caught and killed in fishing operations, and new research out Monday seeks to map this phenomenon for the first time in Read More » -
Fisherman facing life in prison after finding 20 kilo’s of cocaine at sea, setting up a distribution ring
The question is often light-heartedly posited among friends in coastal towns of what one would do if he were to discover a bail of washed-up narcotics. Read More » -
Study finds U.S. regulations to protect killer whales near B.C. coast effective
American regulations that limit vessel noise and traffic around endangered killer whales off the West Coast are working, a new study says. NOAA said in its Read More » -
UPDATED – Five rescued from sinking fishing boat off Cape Sable Island
Five people were rescued from a sinking fishing vessel off Clark’s Harbour on Thursday evening. The received a call at about 7:30 p.m. that the vessel Read More » -
Big Brother is watching
The growing powers of state management of fisheries – and the introduction of more and more laws, regulations, and other restrictions controlling commercial fishing operations – Read More » -
Maine’s lobster population will drop but fishery ‘not doomed’
The lobster population in the Gulf of Maine could decline by nearly two-thirds by 2050, according to a scientific study released this week. As bad as Read More » -
David Morgan, heroic deckhand in deadly 1986 Bodega Bay shipwreck, dies at 62
Nine people out for a day of ocean fishing perished in the sudden tragedy that struck the Merry Jane party boat just outside of Bodega Harbor Read More » -
Worm harvesters angered by ANP enforcement actions
As Acadia National Park celebrates its 100th anniversary, a simmering dispute over worm and clam harvesting on the intertidal zone flats bordering park lands is coming Read More » -
Fish-farming feud: Senate awash in industry propaganda
Re: “Salmon farming a ray of hope for our region,” (Opinions online, June 2). This article by Pamela Parker, executive director, Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association, Read More » -
Sockeye food, recreational fisheries banned for Skeena River First Nations
TERRACE, B.C. – Sockeye salmon returns have plunged to historic lows in the Skeena River system of northwestern British Columbia, forcing drastic, never-before imposed, fishing closures. Read More » -
Good News on the Nass River – Sockeye return’s in higher levels than first predicted,
It may be a dismal year for sockeye in the Skeena River, but the Nass River sockeye returned in higher levels than first predicted, meaning the Nisga’a were Read More » -
Fears in France for future of fishing industry after Brexit
Fishermen in northern France have enjoyed nearly 50 years of shared seas during Britain’s membership of the European Union. But a no-deal Brexit is threatening to Read More » -
In the Cross Hairs – Court upholds killing sea lions to save salmon
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – An appeals court has upheld killing sea lions that eat too many salmon at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. The Read More » -
North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for September 26, 2016
Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 19:18 Read More » -
China’s lobster ban helped lift Australian Christmas seafood purchases by 30 per cent
It was a difficult 2020 for Australian fishermen with COVID-19 affecting both food service and export markets. “We needed a bumper Christmas period to help us Read More » -
Multistate agreement in works for Chesapeake Bay
States in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are working to have a new cleanup agreement ready by October with clearer goals and greater flexibility and transparency. continued@thestatejournal Read More » -
WEEKEND FOCUS: Warming waters and the Gulf of Maine’s fate
Headlines around that great body of water, cradled inside of Cape Sable Island to the north and Cape Cod in the south, screamed alarm this fall Read More » -
Mullet Man busted for commercial fishing in Alligator Creek
PUNTA GORDA, Fla.- Charlotte County Sheriff’s Marine Patrol officers arrested Jeffrey Dean May last week on charges of conducting commercial fishing operations in Alligator Creek. Read Read More » -
This Morning – Portland Harbor Toe Job – Not every day in fishing is a good day.
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NEFMC Honors Lou Goodreau for 45-Year Career on Staff
The New England Fishery Management Council opened the first day of its April 12-14, 2022 hybrid meeting in Mystic, CT by paying tribute to Lou Goodreau, Read More » -
Fishing for facts on the Southern flounder in NC
Some claim that a 40 percent Southern flounder harvest reduction is needed to avoid a collapse of the stock, but there is no science to support Read More » -
Gloucester: Fishing boat’s exhaust sets it afire
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Latest shark incident prompts Cape Cod politician to push ‘Hazard migration strategy’ – would hook ’em, kill ’em
A Barnstable County commissioner is proposing a controversial “shark hazard mitigation strategy” after a shark attacking a seal off a Cape Cod beach Monday sent terrified Read More »
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