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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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    Bi-Partisan effort to keep open permanently Newport, Charleston Coast Guard air bases

    “We remain extremely concerned about Coast Guard air facilities in the high-use ports of Newport, Oregon and Charleston, South Carolina,” the four lawmakers wrote Sen. John Read More »

  • Georges Bank drilling moratorium maintained by Ottawa

    Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver says Ottawa will maintain its moratorium on oil and gas exploration on Georges Bank, a rich fishing area southwest of Nova Read More »
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    Still Love NY? NY’s Offshore Wind Obsession Means Vastly Higher Power Price

    Offshore wind is the renewable-energy industry’s shiny new toy. Led by New York, seven Atlantic-coast states have now imposed mandates to expand offshore wind use over Read More »

  • A new Battle Between Worcester County and U.S. Wind

    The offshore wind company is still moving forward with plans for a facility in the West Ocean City Harbor. County leaders have taken issue with this, Read More »
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    Trawler docked in Bellingham testing 100-plus crew for Coronavirus after 1 hospitalized

    More than 100 crew members of the American Dynasty trawler docked in Bellingham are being tested for COVID-19, a ship spokesperson said Saturday, May 30. One Read More »
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    Sea Lions, Other Marine Mammals Discovering South Sound Anchovy Boom

    A large suite of marine mammals has discovered Deep South Sound’s new bounty of anchovies, schools of which are now so numerous they’re routinely observed during Read More »

  • Environmentalism as Religion by Michael Crichton

    In 2003 Michael Crichton sent the Ecology industry into a rage by exposing them as a religion. He got away with it because he had both the Read More »

  • “Divide and Conquer” – Bay of Fundy tidal project ‘transparency’ questioned

    A group opposing a project to capture power from the world’s highest tides says the company installing the underwater turbines isn’t doing a good job consulting the public. Cape Read More »
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    Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Price Sheet for September 2019 Has Arrived!

    Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273 To review the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd., >Click here< – We Read More »

  • No Go On Permit Stacking for Kodiak Salmon

    This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. Stacking permit proposals dropped. The thoughts on permit stacking between Kodiak set-netters was mixed at the Board Of Fisheries Read More »

  • Fishermen Need to Know – 10 Day comment period April 16-26 – Nature Conservancy EM project

    NOAA and it’s environmental partners are bound and determined to force paid monitoring and eventually EMS on the fishermen. The last EMS study that was delayed Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for May 31, 2019

    >Click here to read the Weekly Update<, to read all the updates >click here<, for older updates listed as NCFA >click here< Everyone in NC that has Read More »
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    Average year for coho harvest in PWS, but prices are up

    Commercial fishing for coho salmon is winding down in Prince William Sound. Gillneters at the mouth of the Copper River are seeing a relatively average year Read More »
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    New Lobster Boat Under Construction in North Carolina

    Custom Steel Boats, Inc. of Merritt, N.C., in collaboration with Ted & Todd’s Marine of Beaufort, N.C., announced a new construction project. Custom Steel Boats is Read More »

  • Portland draws even with Gloucester in fish landings

    While the port of Portland has finally pulled even with Gloucester, Massachusetts, in fish landings, it could be a hollow victory as federal regulators prepare to Read More »

  • Fisheries in Focus: How the mystery of the great eastern Bering Sea snow crab die-off was solved

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  • If you can, Please donate for the family of Maine Lobsterman Jeremey Philbrook

    Recent tragedy has struck the Philbrook Family and the community of Vinalhaven. Jeremey Philbrook, a beloved son, wonderful husband & father died unexpectedly in a fishing Read More »

  • Mystery of world’s worst toxic algal blooms solved: Cold water upswells from the deeper ocean

    The most deadly algal blooms have extremely high levels of the neurotoxin domoic acid, which causes paralytic food poisoning and in rare cases amnesia or death Read More »

  • North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for Nov. 9, 2015

    Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 17:55 Read More »

  • New Brunswick: Record lobster season hurting fishermen – Some brokers have stopped buying, set quotas due to unprecedented catches

    Lobster fishermen in northeastern New Brunswick are reporting record catches and are getting nervous no one will buy their product. It’s only halfway through the lobster Read More »

  • In Honor of Retiring SMAST Dean Brian Rothschild, a Research Fund.

    To celebrate Rothschild’s career and raise money for the fund, a dinner will be held at 6 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Century House in Acushnet. Read More »

  • Waters off B.C. coast awash in plastic particles, says head of new ocean pollution program (with video)

    Based on 34 water samples taken between inshore waters and 1,200 kilometres due west of Victoria, the concentrations of microplastics — pieces typically the size of Read More »
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    Moulton votes no on H.R. 200

    U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton voted against the House bill to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Act on Wednesday because the bill undermines efforts to improve the science used Read More »
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    Jack Spillane: In gratitude for fishermen

    They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; 24 These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders Read More »

  • Feature from 1968 on Portuguese fishermen showing Friday Night in New Bedford – Free Admission!

    The Dock-U-Mentaries Film Series continues on Friday at 7 p.m. with “The Lonely Dorymen,” a 1968National Geographic program about the Portuguese fishermen who fished for cod Read More »

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