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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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    Community pitches in to help get shrimp boat back out to sea

    Five days and still no change. Shrimp boat Big Earl has been stuck on Holden Beach since last week is still there. Captain Virgil Coleman was Read More »
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    FFAW seeking clarification on EI extension for fishery – Fish harvester wants answers

    President Keith Sullivan says his impression was that all fishery workers would be covered by the extension that was announced earlier this week, but now he’s Read More »

  • Southern Shrimp Alliance: The Outlaw Ocean Project Investigation Regarding Imported Shrimp Supply Chains

    On the same day that Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL) publicly released the results of its three-year investigation into forced labor practices in the Indian shrimp industry, Hidden Read More »
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    BLACK SEA BASS – THE NEW “WAR BETWEEN THE STATES”

    On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia, signifying the end of the Read More »

  • Divers hammer thousands of urchins to save Palos Verdes Peninsula kelp forests

    In one nine-hour day this week, longtime fishermen Terry Herzik and Gary Thompson smashed more than 10,000 purple sea urchins on the floor of a cove Read More »

  • UNNAMED SOURCE: Career EPA Staffers will undermine Trump, will leak info to enviro groups and the media

    An unnamed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) source warned that agency employees will leak information about “actions they deem ill-advised or illegal” to environmental groups and the Read More »

  • 9 reasons to fear your steak dinner – Our favorite meats are loaded with contaminants, all so the food industry can improve its profit margins

    Recently, the US Department of Agriculture announced plans to “relax” federal meat and poultry inspections, allowing meat processors greater leeway in policing themselves, already the agricultural trend. more@salon 15:25 Read More »
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    ‘Mask police’: Commercial fishermen, watermen required to wear masks on boats via Biden, Coast Guard COVID orders

    The U.S. Coast Guard is requiring masks be worn on commercial fishing boats and other vessels as part of President Joe Biden’s executive orders mandating face Read More »

  • Warming bonus

      A warmer ocean continues to smile on Alaska commercial salmon fishermen, but the fish market is sadly another story. The 49th state these days finds Read More »
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    Coronavirus: How fishing trade transformed to survive lockdown

    Some fishermen and women have said business has boomed since coronavirus forced them to transform their trade. The industry has been hit hard by the pandemic Read More »

  • Fishermen concerned about industry if fracking approved – West coast fishermen wary of possible problems

    “And when I had … the sand in my hand, one of the chief engineers ran over to me and said, ‘Get that out of your Read More »

  • Feds approve fish pots to outsmart opportunistic whales – Dungeness Gear Works is ready to deliver!

    Gulf of Alaska whales that dine on hooked black cod are likely to find slimmer pickings in the years ahead. Under a measure approved late Sunday Read More »

  • Jerry Schill, NCFA responds to outdoor columnist Ed Wall

    In response to Ed Wall’s Outdoors column, “Fisheries should be managed for all, by all,” I offer the following comments. Mr. Wall mischaracterized my position on Read More »

  • Senate hopeful Dan Winslow carves out fishing stand

    Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Winslow has zeroed in on two nagging statutory imperatives that, in their violation have frustrated the fishing industry — the requirement Read More »
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    Six fishermen feared dead off trawler screamed from inside boat as crewmate clung to hull

    SIX fishermen now feared dead were screaming from ­inside their sinking boat while a crewmate clung to the hull after it capsized off the central Queensland Read More »

  • From the Deckboss

    Boot Vince Webster! – Dismal news for Chinook trollers – It’s over – The latest on the Sitka herring fishery – 48 hours in Anchorage – Read More »
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    ‘You can’t touch the union boat’- Part II – FFAW crab licence

    When Fishery Officers Jason Bateman and Ryan Legge inspected the F/V Katrina Charlene in late June, 2011 at the wharf in St. Lawrence word spread immediately Read More »
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    Feds announces $4.85M to buoy Nova Scotia’s struggling fish and seafood sector

    The federal government has announced funding for a dozen projects in western Nova Scotia to buoy the province’s struggling fish and seafood processing sector. Fisheries Minister Read More »
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    Major Fight Shapes up Over Salmon Harvest in the Columbia River

    Agreements that have reigned for a decade on how to divide the catch of salmon and steelhead in the Columbia Basin expire on the last day Read More »
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    PHOTOS: Setting Day 2023 at eastern PEI harbours

    Lobster fishers in south side harbours, LFA 26A, set their traps on Wednesday morning to kick off the spring season for 2023. Graphic reporters visited harbours Read More »
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    ‘Why is there piles of lobsters in the woods?’ – DFO Investigates

    The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is investigating after dozens of piles of dead, dried-up lobsters were found around Weymouth, N.S., last week. Weymouth is in Lobster Read More »

  • Keys lobster fishermen drop traps for opening of commercial season

    Throughout the Florida Keys and at a few other locations in the state, the crews of hundreds of commercial boats dropped nearly a half million licensed Read More »

  • Something fishy in Cupids – Dead fish inexplicably wash up by the thousands in the marina

    Eddy LeDrew of Cupids said the fish started washing up Sunday. Walking out on the wharf, LeDrew discovered thousands of dead and dying fish, floating on Read More »

  • New longliner, Emry & Boys, built for ALS Fisheries Ltd. of Sambro, Nova Scotia.

    The vessel measures 66 feet in length, with a beam of 28 feet and a draught of 7.5 feet.  The main engine is a Caterpillar Model Read More »

  • Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Keith Colwell confirms Chinese firm eyeing other N.S. seafood products

    Sumo-sized online retailer Alibaba is hungry to sell other Nova Scotia seafood products in addition to lobster, says provincial Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Keith Colwell. After Read More »

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