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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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  • FISHY BUSINESS: There are plenty of fish in the sea

    “The ocean has been over-fished, there are only a few more years of fish out there; and then they will all be gone.” “There simply are Read More »
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    FISH-NL calls on DFO to take direct control of scientific quota of redfish in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

    “The FFAW-Unifor should not be controlling science quotas,” says Boyd Lavers, an inshore harvester from Port Saunders on the Great Northern Peninsula, and Captain of FISH-NL’s Read More »
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    Nova Scotia halibut boat fined $5,000 for fishing inside Gully Marine Protected Area

    A Nova Scotia fishing captain has pleaded guilty to fishing inside the Gully Marine Protected Area near Sable Island. It’s the first conviction in the Department Read More »

  • Ontario farm converts from pigs to shrimp in hopes of jumbo profits

    In rural Ontario, 800 kilometres from the nearest ocean, you will find the unexpected — a  successful inland shrimp farm. With pork prices low, Paul and Tracy Read More »

  • Business: Outer Banks Boat builders see business rise

    “At one time we had 20 major boat builders right here in Dare County, but the last few years boat building has slowed down. Now we’re Read More »

  • Dischner: Another year of halibut quota cuts on the table for 2015 (lots of info)

    Pacific halibut fishermen could have a reduced catch next year if the International Pacific Halibut Commission opts to go with the “blue-line” projection released Dec. 2, Read More »
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    A year ago violence erupted in the lobster fishery, “moderate livelihood” fishery status unresolved

    One year ago, confrontation and violence upended the normally business-like commercial lobster season in St. Mary’s Bay and Lobster Fishing Area 35 in southwest Nova Scotia. 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 »
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    Midwater trawler critics intend to appeal court decision

    Fishermen in the Gulf of Maine are seeking to appeal a federal judge’s reversal of an exclusion zone that keeps herring trawlers 12 miles offshore. The Read More »
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    Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population rebounding

    Last year was a dismal episode for Chesapeake Bay blue crabs and the watermen who harvest them. It’s not that crabs were being overfished. Instead, experts Read More »

  • Tuna prices to rise: PNA nations to lift day rate from US$6,000 to US$10,000 in 2015

    The fee system had allowed Pacific nations to increase earnings from their tuna fisheries from US$60 million in 2010 to more than US$240 million last year. Read More »

  • Connecticut: Free Safety and Survival Training by Fishing Partnership Support Services May 04, 2016

    This hands-on training, provided at no cost to commercial fishermen, is sponsored by Fishing Partnership Support Services, and conducted by Coast Guard Certified Marine Safety Instructors. Read More »

  • Arrogance is NOAA Fisheries “to border on recklessness, if not irresponsibility.” ending ten year SMAST/ Scallop Industry collaborative research.

    Industry leaders are furious that this productive program has been hi jacked by NMFS, while the sallop set aside fund money will now be detoured to Read More »

  • Coast Guard medevacs man 35 miles northeast of Oregon Inlet, NC from the 51-foot F/V Bite Me

    PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard medevaced a 44-year-old man from the 51-foot fishing vessel Bite Me Thursday, approximately 35 miles northeast of Oregon Inlet, N.C. more@uscgnews  07:25 Read More »
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    Gloucester: Fishing boat’s exhaust sets it afire

    No one was injured but a fishing vessel was damaged when it caught on fire Sunday morning. At 9:27 a.m. on Sunday, July 2, the Gloucester Read More »
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    Arizona lobster roll chain buys processing plant and wharf in Maine

    A growing Arizona restaurant chain is snapping up pieces of Maine’s lobster industry, buying a Bailey Island wharf and now a Richmond lobster processor, so that Read More »

  • Exploring aquaculture on Newfoundland’s south coast

    Check out the videos above as CBC’s Mark Quinn takes a closer look at farming on the south coast of the island, and the ups and Read More »
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    Wind Power ‘Droughts’ Mean Nuclear Power Key To Neutralizing Net-Zero Madness

    As a consequence of the Big Calm and a total collapse in wind power output across Western Europe and the UK, the Brits have now enlisted Read More »
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    Federal memo estimates more than $176M of Atlantic lobster catch unreported, untaxed

    The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans suspects hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of lobster is caught in Atlantic Canadian waters each year but never Read More »
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    Matt Ridley: Blue Planet II Was Superb, Save A Few Fishy Facts

    Nothing that Hollywood sci-fi screenwriters dream up for outer space begins to rival the beauty and ingenuity of life under water right here. Blue Planet II Read More »

  • Seafood processors, fishermen unite in opposing temporary foreign workers changes

    The P.E.I. Seafood Processors Association and the P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association have united in calling for a reversal of Ottawa’s sweeping reforms of the temporary foreign worker Read More »

  • Abundance of Squid Leads to New Commercial Fishery in Maine – mpbn

    The changing climate may be responsible for the emergence of a new commercial fishery in Maine. Earlier in the summer we heard a lot about the Read More »
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    Long Island turbine siting – ‘You’re impacting the whole resource’

    Fishermen and city officials raised the alarm Tuesday about potential wind turbines in prime fishing and scalloping grounds south of Long Island. About 55 people attended Read More »

  • Joint Task Force Atlantic release video of medevac rescue

    A new video has been released by the Joint Task Force Atlantic that shows a medical evacuation from a fishing vessel off the coast of Newfoundland The Read More »

  • Starkist CEO hits back at Bumble Bee ‘buy American’ comments

    Frank Pogue, vice president of marketing and corporate affairs for Starkist, hit back at comments from Bumble Bee Foods CEO, Chris Lischewski, over rules on who can supply Read More »

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