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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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  • DFO extends cod fishing season ‘indefinitely’ in the fishing zone known as 3PS on south coast of Newfoundland

    According to Dave Coffin, cod fishermen had a disastrous 2013 with around 70 per cent of the quota left in the water. The extension was requested in Read More »

  • Coast Guard Motor Life Boat crew medevacs man from F/V American Triumph off Coos Bay, Ore.

    The American Triumph, a 285-foot commercial fishing and processing vessel, contacted the Coast Guard at approximately 3:30 p.m. to request a medevac of a 37-year-old male Read More »
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    Fisherman saved by OSU research vessel when his fishing vessel went down in heavy seas

    Frank Akers, 70-year-old owner and operator of the 50-foot F/V Lanola, said he was about 38 miles west of Newport heading eastbound in heavy seas at Read More »

  • Oregon wave energy stalls off the coast of Reedsport

    Last September, with great fanfare, Ocean Power Technologies began construction on America’s first wave-powered utility. Holding the first – and only – wave energy permit from the Read More »

  • Is Japan’s whaling program scientific research?

    Professor Allan Boyle from the University of Edinburgh argued that if Japan’s lethal whaling program was not scientific research, “then neither are the research activities of Read More »
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    Commercial Fisherman: 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Dave Carraro

    Dave Carraro probably never thought that his career as a commercial fisherman would eventually result in him becoming a reality TV star. However, thanks to the Read More »

  • Maine lobster shedding its shell caught in photos

    When a lobster first sheds its shell, the new shell is so soft that it feels like a rotten banana. Occasionally they come up in lobster traps, Read More »
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    Japan to start whaling again

    Japan has announced it will resume commercial whaling next year and withdraw from the International Whaling Commission. A government spokesman made the announcement on Wednesday in Read More »
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    Massachusetts weighs relief fund to the lobster industry

    Lawmakers want to create a new fund to help commercial lobstermen whose livelihoods are being impacted by state and federal regulations aimed at protecting critically endangered Read More »

  • Bering Sea king bycatch, co-op reports and Gulf of Alaska tendering to come back before North Pacific Council

    The North Pacific Fishery Management Council asked for reports and discussion  papers on several items this morning, including king bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery, the Read More »

  • High prices expected for elver eel season

    PORTLAND — Last year’s eel fishing season started strongly when prices rocketed above $2,000 a pound. High prices are again expected when the 2013 season kicks Read More »
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    Fighting for Fish – The Cod Wars and Today: Lessons from an Almost War

    Not once, but three times in the 20th Century, cod was almost the causus belli between Iceland and the United Kingdom in a string of events referred to Read More »

  • Oakland couple fined, sentenced to jail for poaching dozens of Dungeness crabs in Half Moon Bay

    A pair of poachers was sentenced to jail time and fined more than $20,000 Wednesday for smuggling dozens of Dungeness crabs in hidden compartments on their Read More »

  • Alaska Board of Fisheries: Mat-Su Borough Appeals for More Attention to Susitna Salmon

    The Alaska Board of Fisheries is in the midst of two weeks of meetings on potential changes to fishing regulations in the Upper Cook Inlet.  The Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for March 12, 2021

    Legislative updates, Bill updates, Calendar, >Click here to read the Weekly Update<, to read all the updates >click here<, for older updates listed as NCFA >click here<  Incest:  Yes, you Read More »

  • Processing carp into organic fertilizers

    Fully-grown carp in healthy ecosystems typically top 25 pounds. In the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, where carp have completely devastated the ecosystem and dominated the fish Read More »
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    Wooden Hull Scalloper built in Paimpol

    ‘For me, a boat is made of wood. That’s what I prefer,’ said Normandy fisherman Lilian Guadebois, who has been skipper for eleven years. Sainte-Thérèse was Read More »

  • Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board OKs seismic testing by Shell – “is not likely to result in significant adverse environmental effects,”

    Shell Canada Ltd.’s plan for seismic testing in the Shelburne Basin got the green light from the, according to documents made public Friday. If mitigation measures Read More »
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    Danish fishing communities fear Brexit could sink them

    In the small fishing town of Thyboron on the northwestern coast of Denmark, many fishermen worry the British waters they have become increasingly dependent on will 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 »

  • Commercial Fisherman Andy Mays given the first DMR Excellence Award. Congratulations, Andy!

    Andy Mays is not often at a loss for words. But when the Southwest Harbor lobster fisherman and scalloper was called up on stage at the Read More »
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    The Informal Strike. Bering Sea cod fisherman fight for better catch price

    The Bristol Bay red king crab fishery has been closed for two years, and along with it, Bering Sea snow crab have abruptly disappeared, So when Read More »
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    Gulf shrimp industry reeling from labor shortage

    Nello Cassarino needs about 150 workers to dehead, peel, sort, package and freeze nearly 60,000 pounds of shrimp each day at his processing plant on Harborside Read More »

  • Kodiak’s Local Fishermen Voice Opinions For New Gulf Catch Share Plan

    This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini.  Kodiak locals take action in new Gulf catch share plan. More after this…listen @fishradio  16:45 Read More »
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    Nordic Aquafarms Set to Ask County for ‘Financial Incentives’ Before Committing to Indoor Fish Farm Project

    In the five-plus months since Norwegian aquaculture firm Nordic Aquafarms announced plans to build a large-scale, land-based fish farming facility on the Samoa peninsula, we’ve heard Read More »

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