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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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    Fishing Events Benefits Family of Luke Gurney

    Last June, the Island lost Luke Gurney in a commercial fishing accident. This year the Fluke for Luke fishing tournament will celebrate his love of fishing Read More »

  • Bering Sea Pollock Target Up for 2014

    Fishermen will be able to harvest a little more pollock from the Bering Sea next year. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to bump up Read More »
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    Hundreds attend the 53rd annual Blessing of the Fleet in Darien, Georgia

    Sunday, hundreds of people gathered around the waterways of Darien to take part in the 53rd annual Blessing of the Fleet. The tradition celebrates the area’s Read More »

  • Florida Fishermen become farmers in quest for a new oyster industry

    “We knew nothing about oysters,” Clay Lovel said. So the men studied oyster history. They experimented with enclosures and planting methods. The fishermen became farmers. Nine Read More »

  • Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak medevaced an injured fisherman from F/V Beverly Ann 50 miles southeast of Seward Tuesday

    Coast Guard 17th District watchstanders received the report via satellite telephone from a crewmember aboard the Beverly Ann stating the 22-year-old fisherman was struck in the head by deck Read More »

  • New Definition for Halibut Guides Could Impact Sports Fisheries

    A federal agency that oversees halibut and other fish species has revised its definition of sport fishing guides, a decision that is splitting charter fishermen and Read More »
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    Tributes to Cromer fisherman and council leader John Lee

    He was an eighth-generation fisherman known for his down-to-earth style and speaking his mind. Helping others, socialising and having a laugh were all part of his Read More »
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    Seafood operator applauds NOAA Fisheries cutbacks

    One local seafood market owner is not sad to see the fisheries arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scaled back. NOAA Fisheries keeps track Read More »
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    An Update on Canadian Lobsterman Lex Brukovskiy in Ukraine

    Though the air raid sirens shatter his rest, Canadian fisherman Lex Brukovskiy says he’s feeling a sense of calm being back in Ukraine to help his war-ravaged Read More »
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    The life of Newlyn trawlerman Mike Mahon – part II.

    At the conclusion of Part I, skipper Mike ‘Grimmy’ Mahon revealed how his political activities started, leading to his ceaseless fight with British governments and authorities, Read More »
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    Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg sets port condition Whiskey for Port of Tampa for Hurricane Elsa

    Effective 12 p.m. Friday, the Coast Guard Captain of the Port set port condition Whiskey for the ports of Tampa, St. Petersburg, Manatee, and Ft. Myers Read More »
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    F/V Scandies Rose: NTSB announces probable cause of the sinking – Issues Report

    The National Transportation Safety Board unanimously approved the investigative team’s findings on the sunken vessel’s probable cause. On Dec. 31, 2019, the F/V Scandies Rose was Read More »

  • Washington Bill seeks resolution for ‘Fish Wars’ convictions

    OLYMPIA — Nearly half a century after hundreds of American Indians were arrested during the “Fish Wars,” a bill would give those who were convicted a Read More »

  • Captain/owner charged with manslaughter in deaths of 2 crew members

    A Cushing man has been charged in federal court with seaman’s manslaughter in the deaths of two crew members when his lobster boat sank off the Read More »
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    Falmouth beach closes after lobster boat spills diesel fuel

    The northern beach at the Falmouth town landing is closed after a lobster boat spilled diesel fuel into the water Monday morning. According to the Department Read More »

  • Hearing – Feb 27 2014 10:30 AM North Pacific Perspectives on Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization

    WASHINGTON, D.C.— The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard will hold a hearing on Thursday, February Read More »
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    Maine fisherman finds military rocket entangled in lobster trap

     Here’s something you don’t hear about every day. A couple of lobstermen find a military rocket stuck in their traps. That’s what happened to Captain Cameron Read More »

  • ‘Alarm bells should be going off’: P.E.I. fishers reflects on low prices, poor weather throughout 2023 spring lobster season

    Charlie McGeoghegan, chair of the P.E.I. lobster marketing board, wants answers as to why the price of lobster per pound was so low throughout the 2023 Read More »
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    Keys Stone Crab: High Demand and Low Supply Equals Big Money

    As one commercial fisherman colorfully put it, “I could catch more crabs on Duval Street right now than in the Florida Bay.” Understandably, Bill Kelly, the Read More »

  • Coast Guard Refuses to Enforce California’s New Environmental Regulation

    The state of California is once again proving that it is a far-left outlier, and now even the U.S. Coast Guard won’t enforce one of the Read More »

  • Kiwi dies on commercial fishing trawler

    A Nelson man has died after being struck by a wire on a commercial fishing vessel on the Pacific Ocean. New Zealand authorities are investigating after Read More »

  • Coldwater shrimp sector faces more cuts as NAFO closes Grand Banks

    Further steep reductions in also known as northern shrimp, could come in 2015 in both the Grand Banks and Greenland. After years of declining catches in the Read More »

  • Low stock numbers usher in a ‘devastating’ Dungeness crab season

    One month after the Dungeness crab season opened on the Central Coast, Santa Cruz fishers are grappling with an extremely low number of crabs. “It’s devastating,” said fisher Valerie Read More »

  • In case you missed it, Farmed Salmon Escaped and are on the run in Newfoundland!

    Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada officials confirmed this week that farmed salmon escaped from an aquaculture site in the Fortune Bay area, and have turned Read More »

  • Federal fisheries officers refusing duties because of violence on the water in N.S.

    Federal fisheries officers in Nova Scotia say they’re refusing some enforcement duties because of threats to their safety, as they await Ottawa’s response to their complaints. Read More »

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