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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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  • Florida Stone-crabs: Harvest down, prices way up this year

    MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — In 46 years as a commercial fisherman, Gary Graves says he has never seen a stone crab harvest season as poor as Read More »

  • Enviros Petition for Immediate and Permanent Rule Making to Prohibit Fishing for Gulf of Maine Cod

    Today’s petition, filed under the Administrative Procedure Act, urges the Fisheries Service to follow the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act requirement to rebuild overfished species. Read More »

  • Historic MS Coast boat is saved after captain’s death. His family has hopes for its future

    The Linda K sat for days near the shore of Deer Island, the water seeping in. It’s captain, esteemed shrimper Richard Kopszywa, died tragically last week Read More »

  • Endangered winter-run Chinook Salmons fingerlings released into Sacramento River

    For the second year in a row, federal officials on Wednesday released hundreds of thousands of endangered salmon into the Sacramento River in Redding to compensate Read More »
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    Do sharks like biting on submarine internet cables? The captain of a cable ship reveals all

    That the internet is physical can be hard to grasp. Few people have experienced this fact as viscerally as Guillaume Le Saux, captain of a ship Read More »
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    British Fishermen Feared Pro-Brexit Campaigners Would Betray Them—and They Did

    Few communities in the United Kingdom were as supportive of Brexit as fishermen. Politicians pushing for the country to leave the European Union capitalized on the Read More »

  • New England Regional Fisheries Council can’t agree on plan to help cod

    NOAA Fisheries  has the Gulf of Maine cod crisis all to himself after the New England Regional Fisheries Council found no consensus and simply voted to Read More »

  • Wild salmon fishery discard video sparks probe

    The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it has launched a formal investigation after a video showing allegedly harmful salmon release practices was posted online Read More »
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    Bristol Bay – How to avoid a Coast Guard ticket this season

    As Bristol Bay fishermen put in long hours preparing their boats for another salmon season, the Coast Guard is just as busy making sure those vessels Read More »

  • The Ties that Bind

    Nancy Bowers’ mother fished in the 1980s when it was uncommon for women to be out in boat. Since then, Bowers says, the fishing industry has Read More »
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    Can True Fin Buoy Maine’s Floundering Groundfish Fleet?

    It’s true, there are plenty of fish in the sea. Maine fishermen, though, haven’t had much choice but to leave them there. Over the past several Read More »
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    Washington tribe partners with Cooke to farm Northwest native species

    The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is pleased to announce a joint venture with Cooke Aquaculture Pacific. The joint venture will initially work to rear sablefish (black cod) and Read More »
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    Fisherman’s lobster boat sinks in Southwest Harbor

    Wednesday, Dec. 22, was a disappointing day for local fisherman Nahum Kelley. It was the day that his lobster boat sank in Southwest Harbor. On Monday morning, Curry had Read More »

  • Cape Breton’s Area 27 Lobster season may be delayed because of ice, snow

    Some fishermen in Cape Breton are running into problems getting ready for lobster season as many boats are not yet in the water and some traps Read More »

  • Canada’s largest lobster fishery set to begin amid threat of Trump tariffs

    Trump’s inauguration is still a couple of months away, he officially takes office on Jan. 20, but fishermen are trying to take the threat in stride Read More »

  • Don’t forget the Meth! Breakdown leads to charges for Skipper and Mate

    Water police responded to calls for help at 7.15am today about 15 nautical miles from North Haven where the commercial fishing boat had broken down. The Read More »

  • HUGE CATCH off the coast of Gloucester!

    On April 28,2016, F/V CAPT NOVELLO  caught a huge American flag  38 ft. by 20 ft.. Looking  for  ANSWERS , WHO LOST IT ??  WHY/??  AND Read More »
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    Individual transferable quota system hurting Tasmania’s fishing fleets

    “ITQs have caused a decrease in owner operators and a decrease in active vessels in the fleet,, “Separation of ITQ ownership from the fishing sector has Read More »
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    New Peterhead festival to champion north-east seafood

    Europe’s top white-fish port will provide the backdrop for a new north-east food and drink festival this autumn. SeaFest Peterhead has been organised to champion the Read More »

  • Unsafe work environment led to death at sea, TSB finds – 25-year-old St. Anthony man killed aboard Katsheshuk II in 2012

    A lack of training, a broken piece of equipment, and overall unsafe work conditions led to the death of a crewmember on a fishing vessel,,, continued@cbcnews  Read More »
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    Livelihoods Threatened: Massachusetts lobstermen concerned about proposed regulations to protect whales

    The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries is proposing multiple amendments to current rules regulating fixed gear fisheries in an effort to protect an the North Atlantic right whale. Read More »

  • Nantucket’s Rich Are Losing the Battle to Keep Wind Power Out of Their Backyards

    A newly erected wind turbine off the coast of the pristine sandy beaches of Nantucket rises about 850 feet from the ocean surface, higher than any Read More »

  • Oil lobby sues feds over threatened Alaska ringed seals

    The lawsuit also targets the National Marine Fisheries Service’s plan to label a 350,000-square-mile expanse of Alaska waters as critical habitat for the seals. Arctic ringed Read More »
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    World War II American fighter cockpit found by Lowestoft fishermen

    Lowestoft trawlerman Alex Wightman was collecting his nets on September 9, when, to his amazement, he realised the big catch he hauled overboard was the remains Read More »

  • White House budget head: Reported Coast Guard cuts ‘not accurate’

    President Trump’s budget director is insisting that a report that $1.3 billion would be cut from the Coast Guard’s budget is inaccurate, although the administration’s first Read More »

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