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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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Working Waterfront Festival – Annual blessing, UMass Dartmouth SMAST Recieves Friend of the Fishing Industry award
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Feds support vacating 1958 judgment against lobstermen’s group
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Canadian Coast Guard vessel to be named after soldier killed in 2008
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Red King Crab Serial Killers – This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini.
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North Atlantic right whale seen off Ireland for first time in 114 years
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Northern Shrimp Harvester Roland Genge questions science methodology, hoping for changes to quota rules
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Stormy horizons – Salmon farms
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Fishermen take federal government to court over right to sell Class B licences again
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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update JULY 20, 2014
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Coast Guard urges caution to mariners ahead of heavy weather expected to impact the Central and Southern California Coast
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$20M+ in federal funds to California fisheries for disaster relief, $7M+ Oregon
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New trawler/purse seiner vessel for Northern Ireland
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Small rebound for N.L.’s northern cod, but stock still in critical zone
A federal report released Tuesday said northern cod’s spawning stock biomass — fish that can reproduce — was higher than predicted last year, representing a four-per-cent Read More »
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