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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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  • Costa Rica: Tuna company, fishermen and environmental groups squabble over unpublished fishing decree

    Expected restrictions on industrial tuna fishing have been stalled pending the publication of a decree signed by former President Laura Chinchilla (2010-2014). Though Chinchilla signed the Read More »

  • 78-foot trawler Lady Gertrude arrives in Point Pleasant Beach

    Blowing salutes from their ship’s horn, the crew of the Lady Gertrude steamed into Manasquan Inlet this week, bringing in a newly purchased and renovated 78-foot Read More »

  • Our biggest water hog is Delta Smelt

    Slam man all you want but he is part of the environment.  Man has both altered and enhanced the environment. The bottom line is simple: In Read More »

  • 12-year-old Mainer becomes local tuna fishing legend

    Myles Wotton, 12, of Bristol has been watching his father, Donald, older brothers, Mitchell and Merritt, and other area fishermen bring in tuna since he was Read More »

  • PUTNAM: Slow government action hurts fisheries

    Christian Putnam is a Scituate resident and board member of Friends of South Shore Fisheries. This is his take on administrative bureaucrats, stock assessments, cod behavior, Read More »

  • Federal Judge Evokes Dr. Seuss in Upholding Seafood Regulations

    Invoking Dr. Seuss, a federal judge on Monday quoted from the 1960 classic “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” to uphold a regulatory regime Read More »

  • Northern California – Daily Salmon Count Predicts Grim Fishing Season

    Every year about this time, state and federal fish regulators set recreational commercial fishing quotas for the upcoming salmon season which begins in April and May. Read More »
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    Marine Electronics: Time to work, sonar tells squid fishermen

    We have a hundred times more efficiency using Wesmar sonar. Without it we wouldn’t go fishing. For sardines you have to have it. Sonar is the Read More »

  • UNE researcher gets $1.7M grant to aid fishing industry – will research the mortality rate of winter skates

    A federal agency has awarded a University of New England researcher and his colleagues $1.7 million for a research project they hope will help increase revenues Read More »

  • Fishing: A Lifelong Love Flourishes

    “Ever since I was a little boy, it was the only thing I wanted to do,” said Manhasset resident Nicholas Marchetti, on the sport that combines Read More »
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    Alleging disability discrimination, lobster fisherman taking DFO to Federal Court

    Longtime Nova Scotia lobster fisher Dana Robinson was hoping to pass on his fishing licence to his grandchildren. Robinson bought the licence to fish in Area Read More »

  • Captain Joseph John Testaverde, Lifelong Gloucester Fisherman – March 24, 1951 – February 25, 2015

    It was the sea that ran through his veins, starting at the age of 7 as his fathers deckhand and eventually becoming owner and Captain of Read More »
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    Fishing vessel catches fire off the coast of Oregon

    U.S Coast Guard crews responded to a fire on a 42-foot commercial fishing vessel off the coast of Manzanita Beach in Oregon early Saturday morning. USCG Read More »
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    Federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan says financial aid for fishermen in Atlantic Canada is days away.

    The pledge comes amid both economic and health concerns caused by the Coronavirus pandemic and $252 million in aid announced for Canadian farmers and food processors Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for August 4, 2017

    Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here  “If I don’t go, I’ll wish I had. If I do go, Read More »

  • New Bedford Working Waterfront Festival named in North America’s 100 Best Events for 2016

    The Working Waterfront Festival is a project of the Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern MA, a non-profit organization. The free festival, a family friendly, educational Read More »
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    MAIB Report: Fisherman’s desperate attempts to save life of brother dragged beneath the waves off coast near Hartlepool

    An experienced young fisherman became fatally entangled in ropes when unsafe practices were being carried out onboard a commercial fishing boat, a report has concluded. Lee Read More »

  • Fun Police Throw Wild Alaskan’s Strippers Out of Work, Pulling it’s Liquor License! So Much for Jobs Jobs Jobs. Video

    In a tense meeting on Monday, Darren Byler, owner of the Wild Alaskan, met with the state’s Alcohol Beverage Control Board regarding the fate of his business’ Read More »

  • Endangered porbeagle sharks still at risk, say COSEWIC scientists

    The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) re-examined the porbeagle’s endangered status last week in Halifax — and this week re-confirmed it. Read More »
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    Snow crabbing case over Latvia ends up in international court of arbitration

    Peteris Pildegovics and his company North Start LTD, whose trawler was arrested by Norwegian authorities as it was crabbing around the Svalbard (Spitzbergen) archipelago, have filed a Read More »

  • Bill in Legislature seeks early action for derelict vessels

    OLYMPIA —State officials would be encouraged to  deal with derelict boats sooner — preferably before they sink — under a proposed  law moving through the Legislature. Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for Sept 20 , 2019

    Legislative updates, Bill updates, Calendar, >Click here to read the Weekly Update<, to read all the updates >click here<, for older updates listed as NCFA >click Read More »
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    Truck Beach Trespassing Cases May Head Out of Town

    Attorneys for oceanfront property owners along what is popularly known as Truck Beach on Napeague have convinced a New York State Supreme Court judge to move Read More »

  • Supertrawler fishing ban comes to an end amid demands for permanent stop

    The Stop the Trawler Alliance said Prime Minister Tony Abbott should make good on his promise in March that: “The supertrawler was banned from Australian waters…It Read More »

  • Coast Guard helps New Bedford vessel sinking off Nantucket

    NEW BEDFORD — A  New Bedford fishing vessel, in danger of sinking early Saturday morning, was saved following prompt action from Coast Guard crews. The 84-foot steel Read More »

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