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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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    “Why should we help those who destroyed their own fishery?” This is the question that is usually trotted out when there is a debate about allowing Read More »
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    PHOTOS: Setting Day 2023 at eastern PEI harbours

    Lobster fishers in south side harbours, LFA 26A, set their traps on Wednesday morning to kick off the spring season for 2023. Graphic reporters visited harbours Read More »

  • Frank Mirarchi – A Scituate fisherman’s perspective on government’s fisheries management

    Thank you for the editorial “White House puts politics ahead of fishery science” published on Tuesday, May 26. You have provided your readers an insight into Read More »

  • Canada’s largest lobster fishery set to begin amid threat of Trump tariffs

    Trump’s inauguration is still a couple of months away, he officially takes office on Jan. 20, but fishermen are trying to take the threat in stride Read More »
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  • As Fisheries Struggle, Debate Heats Up Over How to Help

    Russell Sherman stood at the wheel of his boat, the Lady Jane, as light faded and his crew prepared to dock for the night. He made Read More »

  • Meanwhile in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia government approves “experimental” turbine deployment

    The Nova Scotia government has approved a plan to deploy two experimental tidal turbines in the Minas Passage for research purposes. The government announced the approval of the Read More »

  • Just two months ago – Fishing for a Future aboard the Atlantic Charger.

    All Brad Watkins has ever wanted to do is fish on a longliner.  He even said so in his high school yearbook. Brad is 43 now Read More »
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    Westerly Town Council seeks input on marina property – Fishermen weigh in.

    The Town Council will accept input from members of the Planning Board and the Economic Development Commission as it prepares for a new contract for use Read More »

  • Lobsterman, Beverly at odds over mooring – To be blunt, Beverly Solicitor Roy Gelineau sounds like……

    BEVERLY — A local lobsterman is fighting his eviction from a Beverly Harbor mooring slip, claiming that city officials are using his history of late fee payments as Read More »
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    Sam Parisi, The Headline – Lawmakers to Trump: Keep Marine Monument protections – My response

    First, and foremost, I would like to thank, and publicly recognize the local politicians that didn’t sign onto this letter, and as they always do, support Read More »

  • Ocean City Letter States ‘Unconditional Opposition’ To Baltimore Canyon Marine Sanctuary Designation

    Calling a potential designation of the offshore Baltimore Canyon as the nation’s first Urban National Marine Sanctuary potentially “devastating” to the multi-million dollar fishing industry, resort Read More »
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    F/V Scandies Rose: Stuart Coast Guardsman recalls saving two fishermen off coast of Alaska

    “I just told myself this what I trained for. I volunteered to do this so I knew what I had to. It was up to me Read More »

  • Bluefin tuna in Gulf of Mexico face tighter safeguards under federal proposal

    Bluefin tuna spawning grounds in the Gulf of Mexico would become more protected under a proposed new amendment expected to be published in the Federal Register Read More »
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    Poor Fraser River sockeye run spells end of the south coast salmon fleet

    B.C. commercial fishermen are now forced to resign themselves to the reality that they will be shut out of the Fraser River sockeye fishery for the Read More »

  • Fire on a fishing boat in Newlyn Harbour last night.

    A crewman collapsed and needed medical treatment after escaping a fire on a fishing boat in Newlyn Harbour last night. Emergency services, including the Penlee Lifeboat Read More »
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    Want To Cripple America? Have the Democrats Got A New ‘Green’ Deal For You!

    The Democrats have been doing the bidding of America’s cabal of crony capitalists who designed the wind and solar scam for years; characters who’ve made obscene profits Read More »

  • Shrimp Down, Lobster Up: Is There a Connection?

    But there’s another part to this story, a somewhat different kettle of fish, but still relevant. A Lobster Tale  If Maine shrimp is a delicious coastal Read More »

  • Fishermen condemn Labor candidate Lucy Stanton’s claims – Mark Jason Alexander, Commercial fisherman

    As commercial  fishermen you expect some challenges, bad weather, fluctuating fish prices, bad seasons, but you do not expect to be falsely accused of a serious Read More »

  • ACOA loans a half-million dollars to a Nova Scotia company helping Chinese men get boners

    The sea cucumber, an alleged aphrodisiac, is getting Nova Scotians excited. ACOA is extending a $500,000 loan to Ocean Pride Fisheries to develop products from sea cucumbers, reports the CBC: Read More »
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    LeBlanc offers fall season to fishermen squeezed by right whale measures

    The federal fisheries minister says he has offered lobster harvesters from New Brunswick and Quebec a previously unscheduled fall fishing season, to make up for measures Read More »

  • Study: Narragansett Bay temps reached record highs, lows last year

    An oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography said temperatures in Narragansett Bay hit record highs and lows in 2015. Jeremy Collie Read More »

  • Terrible weather conditions are blamed for slow start to lobster fishery in Fortune Bay

    Exceptional windy conditions resulted in most fishers only being able to haul their pots three or four times during each of the first two weeks of Read More »
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    F/V Scandies Rose: Coast Guard suspends search, Releases names of five missing fishermen and two survivors

    The Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday at 6:08 p.m. for five missing fishermen in the waters near Sutwik Island, Alaska. The five missing are: Gary Read More »
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    Commercial fishing isn’t the main threat to habitat

    A recent letter wondered why Gov. Inslee would allow gillnetters on the Columbia River. The fact is, in the environment in which orcas struggle to survive Read More »

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