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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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    Rocky: The Largest Lobster Ever Caught in Maine

    There are approximately 75 species of lobsters, split into two types: clawed lobsters and spiny/rock lobsters. Typically, these sea animals have long bodies and muscular tails. Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 42′ X 16.5′ David MacDonald Lobster Boat, 500HP Volvo

    To review specifications, information, and 22 photos’, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here< 10:09 Read More »
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    Family owned working waterfront fishing businesses displaced by waterfront developments on Great Lakes

    For three generations, the Minor family, today brothers Carson and Landon and their father Paul, have been up before first light to board their fishing tug Read More »

  • Enviros, Fishing interests balk at Obama’s exclusion of S.C. coastlines from drilling ban

    “We are extremely disappointed,” Frank Knapp, president and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce and co-founder of the Business Alliance for Protecting Read More »

  • Cooke Aquaculture announces $203M Scottish purchase

    New Brunswick-based Cooke Aquaculture is buying the Scottish subsidiary of Marine Harvest in the Orkney and Shetland Islands in a deal worth $203 million. The company operates Read More »

  • Companies’ venture brings deep sea red crab to Va. F/V Hannah Boden will relocate to Hampton, Va.

    The expansion of Virginia’s seafood industry is a joint venture between two Virginia-based companies, L.D. Armory Co., Inc. and Graham & Rollins, Inc. and Massachusetts-based Atlantic Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 49′ Fiberglass Gillnetter, Lobster w/ Permits, CAT 3406B

    To review specifications, information, and 10 photos’,>click here< To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 06:21 Read More »

  • Fishermen’s group pushes wearing Personal Flotation Devices

    The Grand Manan Fishermen’s Association says the use of personal flotation devices in the commercial fishing industry is growing, but more work needs to be done. Melanie Sonnenberg, Read More »

  • Criminal or conservationist? Paul Watson marks year at sea after fleeing arrest

    “I’m not really a fugitive. It’s just that if I enter a border point then that will immediately send a message to Japan to have me Read More »

  • As the oceans warm, fish populations are on the move.

    Few people see the effects of climate change as clearly as fishermen. As the climate changes and the oceans warm, fish are moving in search of Read More »
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    The Shocking Amount of Money Sig Hansen has Made from “Deadliest Catch”

    Reality television is popular. It’s so popular that there seems to be a show for just about everyone. From watching housewives and their drama unfold to Read More »
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    Speakers list released for today’s event to mark 30th anniversary of northern cod moratorium

    The speakers list for the event scheduled for this afternoon to mark the 30th anniversary of the announced shutdown of Newfoundland and Labrador’s most iconic fishery Read More »

  • New Bone Removing Machine Introduced – The Pinbone Wizard

    The University of Alaska Fairbanks has a new bone removal machine receiving patents. Larry Kozycki invented the Pinbone Wizard in the 1990’s.  But when Kozycki died,,,“The Read More »
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    Susan Beaton: Our markets gone, call fishing season off

    I read that the provincial fisheries ministers from the Atlantic provinces and Quebec met recently. I was slightly heartened, but also worried. Is their intention to Read More »

  • The Fisheries Broadcast with John Furlong

    The size and the scope of the Boston Seafood Show, and the price of crab for the opening of the fishery has been announced and so Read More »

  • Laine Welch: Report shows nice gains throughout salmon value chain

    ADN.com – It takes quite a crew to get an Alaska salmon from “boat to throat,” and everyone along the line gets a cut of the Read More »
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    Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser – $2 billion river diversion is opposed by many. I am opposed.

    Turning the tide on land loss in coastal Louisiana is a matter of self-preservation.  However, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s (CPRA) plan to address coastal Read More »

  • Indefinite ban on prawn imports after outbreak of white spot disease in Queensland

    Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has this morning bowed to pressure from prawn farmers and indefinitely banned importation of the frozen crustacean, following an outbreak of Read More »

  • Breaking – Ex-AG asked to probe fishing permit bank gloucesterdailytimes.com

    Former state Attorney General Scott Harshbarger is under contract and has begun an assessment of the “governance, policies and operations” of the Gloucester Fishing Community Preservation Fund, Read More »
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    Land ahoy! Fishermen challenge presidential designations of ocean monuments

    This month, the Antiquities Act turned 112 years old. Originally conceived to protect Native American artifacts in the Southwest, the law has, like so many federal Read More »

  • Gloucester to take brunt of new NOAA fishing hits

    The port of Gloucester and its sector-based commercial fishermen could be crushed under emergency measures NOAA Fisheries is considering for Gulf of Maine cod, potentially losing Read More »

  • EU seal product ban upheld in WTO appeal

    Canada has lost its bid to have a European Union ban on seal products overturned, with the appeals process upholding a EU decision that connected the trade Read More »

  • The fate of Shelter Island commercial fishing: Ideas, views and information shared at forum

    The Thursday, Nov. 14 Reporter Community Forum at the Presbyterian Church’s Fellowship Hall, had a panel of two baymen, a local chef, and an official with Read More »

  • Peru plans to start its main fishing season a month earlier to lock in anchovy catches in case El Niño intensifies

    An updated official El Niño forecast, scheduled for release on Monday, is expected to paint a clearer picture of potential impacts late this year. The last Read More »
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    Quinhagak commercial fishermen struggle after two years without a buyer

    Several weeks ago, the financing fell through on a plan to bring the “Akutan,” a floating fish processing vessel, to Kuskokwim Bay. For the second summer in Read More »

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