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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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  • It takes creative thinking to market last year’s catch

    (SitNews) – Salmon season is just getting underway, but seafood companies are still selling last summer’s record catch of 226 million pink salmon – and it Read More »
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    1 fatality, 2 survive sinking of a commercial fishing boat in Nushagak Bay

    Alaska State Troopers said one person is dead after a commercial fishing vessel sank toward the south side of Nushagak Bay on Thursday morning. Two additional Read More »
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    Falklands’ company expects its state of the art trawler F/V Falcon ready for the Loligo February 2021 season

    F/V Falcon, the latest trawler from the Falkland Islands Fortuna fishing company was launched on Wednesday at the Nodosa Shipyard in Vigo, Spain. The vessel will Read More »
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    Paul Sparkes: To wit — a barrel of herring

    In the middle of November 1906 at 10:30 in the morning Alexander Dubois and George Crane were summoned before Magistrate Levi March at Bay of Islands Read More »

  • Interior Approves New York City Offshore Wind Project, Commercial Fishermen Oppose

    The Offshore Wind Project in New York City is given a go signal by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) last week. On the other hand, Read More »

  • Controversial fish farm footage released

    A B.C. environmentalist claims she has shocking new evidence that B.C. fish farms are carrying diseases that could potentially infect wild salmon. Earlier this summer, biologist Read More »

  • Fishery closures suggested to save West Coast killer whales

    Strategic fishery closures and marine habitat protection are part of a proposed plan by the federal government to protect the threatened killer whales off Canada’s West Read More »

  • Red snapper dispute continued at Wednesday meeting

    The war of words continued Wednesday during an all-day meeting in Baton Rouge designed to educate members of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission on red snapper Read More »

  • Listen to Bristol Bay Fisheries Report for Saturday, July 13 with Mike Mason KDLG

    The Bristol Bay Fisheries Report for Saturday, July 13th includes the latest on the price for sockeye this season and an update on the response to Read More »

  • Pacific trading partners release Trans-Pacific Partnership pact details

    The long-awaited text of a landmark U.S.-backed Pacific trade deal was released on Thursday, revealing the details of a pact aimed at freeing up commerce in Read More »
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    Could this, like spot prawns, be our next local seafood success? The hake catch is six times the size for wild salmon.

    B.C.’s hake, also known as Pacific whiting or Merluccius productus, is a transboundary species that crosses Canadian and American waters. Both countries share management of the short-lived, Read More »

  • Vintage San Francisco: Dungeness crab seasons

    As a cloud hangs over the upcoming Dungeness crab season, let’s take a look back at happier days on the wharf. Commercial fishing in San Francisco Read More »

  • National Marine Fisheries Service’s Office of Law Enforcement returns to Unalaska/Dutch Harbor

    A federal fisheries agency office is reopening in Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, as soon as three enforcement officers are hired and trained, according to Kevin Heck, acting deputy Read More »
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    Brexit ‘provides golden opportunity to regain control of fisheries policy’

    Brexit provides a “golden opportunity” to revitalise the UK’s fisheries industry, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has said.  The free market think tank claimed the Read More »

  • NOAA reviews new management measues aimed at allowing young scallops to mature

    The move — which reduces quotas by a third — is something local fishermen are on board with, although they hope the cuts prove to be Read More »
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    1 dead, 2 missing after shrimp boat sinks off North Carolina, search continues

    The Coast Guard rescued two crew members from a shrimp trawler when it went down in the Pamlico Sound on Tuesday, officials said.  One of them Read More »

  • El Niño pushes California calamari landings down

    After several years of bounty, California’s commercial landings of market squid — the species better known to hungry diners as calamari — are down by about Read More »
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    Money Talks – Vineyard Wind given more time to meet fishermen’s concerns

    At the request of Vineyard Wind, the Coastal Resources Management Council agreed to postpone a decision until the end of January on whether to grant what’s Read More »

  • Bristol Bay Fisheries Report June 12, 2015

    Tim Sands joins for a discussion on Westside counts and more on his plan to open fishing at 30,000 sockeye up the Wood River. Law enforcement Read More »

  • Alaska senators hope to toss overbroad fishing-discharge regs overboard

    “The flawed regulation is written so broadly that it would penalize Alaska’s fisherman and more than 8,000 boats statewide simply for rinsing fish guts off their Read More »

  • Missing Fisherman’s Body Found in Kodiak Harbor

    Kodiak Police Chief Rhonda Wallace said Saturday that a preliminary identification indicates it is 27-year-old Mihay Kalugin, a crewman aboard the fishing vessel Competition, who disappeared Read More »
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    Coast Guard medevacs crewman from commercial fishing vessel 9 miles off San José Island, Texas

    The Coast Guard medevaced a crew member Saturday from a fishing vessel 9 miles off San José Island, Texas. Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi command Read More »
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    GALLERY: Safety & Survival Class and Drill Conductor Certification at Coast Guard Station Atlantic City

    On April 27, 2023, In Atlantic City, The U.S. Coast Guard and Fishing Partnership Support Services are teaming up to offer local commercial fishermen a free Read More »
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    It’s time to kill the Gulf dead zone, as Gulf Shrimpers fight for their livelihoods

    Anyone who has followed this issue over the three decades or so it has been studied knows progress has been slow. They also know Louisiana, though Read More »
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    The International Pacific Halibut Commission meeting is underway in BC

    The International Pacific Halibut Commission will be deciding on catch limits, other proposed changes to management and season length though Friday in Victoria, British Columbia. “The Read More »

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