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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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  • Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting in Philadelphia, PA October 7-9, 2014 – Listen online

    The public is invited to attend the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s meeting on October 7 – 9, 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The meeting will be held at the Courtyard Read More »

  • World’s fish have been moving to cooler waters for decades, study finds

    “The biggest problem we have with fishery management is it assumes the future will look like the past,” he said. “That’s no longer the case.”In places Read More »

  • Boat and Ship Industry Ideal for 3D Printer R&D Tax Credits – What is 3D Printing? An Overview.

    Although many boat and ship components are standard items, the added transportation costs and marine specifications often make parts and components difficult to source and very Read More »
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    Bristol Bay Fisheries Report: June 21, 2021

    It’s the first Fish Report of the season! Data from Port Moller show a big push of fish might arrive in the Nushagak this week. But Read More »

  • FW: Small Boats can (and might well be) favored in Fishing – from Stephen Taufen

    This hits on oft-repeated Groundswell messages:  1) No one owns the fish of the sea; 2) subsidies lead to industrialization, overfishing; 3) small boats create more Read More »

  • FFAW President Keith Sullivan says Time to Increase Cod Quotas is now

    The president of the FFAW says you might not see a commercial fishery in the next couple of years, but he says there’s certainly an opportunity Read More »

  • Delano: Biden administration won’t leave lobstermen alone

    Lawmakers and a federal appeals court last year defeated a federal plan to save endangered whales by eradicating New England’s lobster industry. With those plans undone, Read More »
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    Jury awards lobsterman nearly $850,000 over botched hernia surgery at EMMC

    A Penobscot County jury on Thursday awarded an Ellsworth man nearly $850,000 for a botched hernia operation that required additional hospitalizations to correct and kept him Read More »
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    Contessi Launches Fresher Trawler for Rawson

    The Contessi shipyard in Mar del Plata launched at the beginning of August a new coastal fresher trawler built to fish from the port of Rawson Read More »

  • I don’t usually post from this site but, The Beer-Reviewed Stock Assessment: A Fisheries Phenomenon

    We’ve all heard about .  That’s what you get when a team of biologists assesses the health of one stock of fish, and another panel of Read More »

  • Britain’s youngest fishing boat captain has to be rescued… again

    He is Britain’s youngest fishing boat captain, who just last week won an award for saving the lives of three of his crew when his boat Read More »

  • The Accident That Saved Sig Hansens Life

    Sig recounts the story of a minor accident that ended up saving his life and reflects on the dangers of his chosen profession. Watch the video Read More »

  • Nova Scotia Fishermen fined for selling groundfish they hadn’t reported catching – one banned from fishing for life

    Federal prosecutor Jodi Mailman said investigators inspected Deep Cove Aqua Farms Ltd. of Blandford in June 2011, looking for information on fish and fish products the Read More »
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    Management Plan Released for Atlantic Herring in Southwest Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy

    Atlantic herring is a vital species in Atlantic Canada. As one of the largest commercial fisheries in Atlantic Canada, the Southwest Nova Scotia / Bay of Fundy herring stock directly Read More »
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    Making A Name In Outer Banks Seafood – Vicki Basnight is carrying on the family legacy, one catch at a time

    When you pick up the specials list at the Lone Cedar Café in Nags Head, it’s hard to miss Vicki Basnight’s name. On a spring night Read More »

  • Begich Introduces Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Bill

    As the 113th Congress nears its close, U.S. Senator Mark Begich has introduced legislation to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA), the primary federal law that governs Read More »

  • Secondary scallop processing has proven to be a solution to the troubled Ramea fish plant.

    The plant has been sitting vacant for about four years during what owner Danny Dumaresque called a battle he couldn’t win against the provincial government. The Read More »

  • Fishing Community Mayor, Top Officials Off the Hook in Retaliation Claims

    The mayor and other city officials in the fishing community of Gloucester, Massachusetts are protected under qualified immunity against claims by the city’s harbormaster that they Read More »

  • Bristol Bay is no place to experiment: Assessment shows Pebble mine would be bad for Alaska

    In many ways, Alaska was — and still is — a grand experiment. But our founding mothers and fathers would almost certainly not approve of the Read More »
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    Protest seeks shutdown of Atlantic salmon farms in Washington state

    Activists in Washington state plan to launch a protest flotilla on Saturday in the Pacific Ocean’s Puget Sound over the accidental release of tens of thousands Read More »

  • Fishing vessel energy audit aims to cut costs for fishermen

    Commercial fishermen are largely at the whim of the seafood market. Prices can vary wildly, while operation costs stays the same — That is, until now. Read More »
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    Slow response to right whale plight could have impact on Canadian fisheries

    Fishermen off the U.S. east coast have confronted tight restrictions on fishing gear and vessel pace restrictions to make sure their actions don’t hurt marine mammals, Read More »

  • GDT Letter: Driving out fishermen is NOAA’s only answer Captain Paul Cohan, F/V Sasquatch, Gloucester.

    Regarding the threats of even tighter limits on the shrimp season — when it ever reopens (the Times, Tuesday, July 8) — I’m certain that once Read More »

  • “If it comes in the bay, we’ve had it,” Port O’Connor Tx. Fishing community worries about oil spill (w/video)

    It was late in the day, and nearly everyone had left Clark’s Shrimp House except Craig Lambright and the rest of the three-man shrimper crew. The Read More »
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    ITS TIME FOR A FISHING INDUSTRY BUY OUT BY OFFSHORE WIND

    If Offshore wind farm companies want the commercial fishing industry to support the construction of massive wind farms on their long time historical fishing grounds, then Read More »

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