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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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  • ENDANGERED STATUS SOUGHT FOR WHITE SHARK – California

    A group of state legislators is urging the California Fish and Game Commission to declare the white shark endangered, warning that the marine predators are in Read More »

  • Meet the New Boss, Acting NOAA Administrator Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan

    Dr. Kathryn Sullivan assumed the role of Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting NOAA Administrator on February 28, 2013, where she Read More »
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    Halibut quotas for 2018 come in slightly lower than expected

    The total allowable catch for the 2018 Pacific halibut season in the Gulf of Alaska and Southeast will be set slightly lower than what U.S. commissioners Read More »
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    Dungeness crab fleet readies for opener as weather hampers season start for some

    A monthlong delay in the opening of the Dungeness season will conclude this weekend, allowing the commercial fleet to get out on the water and start Read More »

  • ASMFC Northern Shrimp Section and Advisory Panel meeting in Portland, Me. June 12, 2015

    Interstate fishery regulators will meet in Portland, Maine, this week to identify management options for the shuttered Northern shrimp fishery. Regulators are working on an amendment Read More »
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    EU humiliation: Brutal reality of Canada deal without UK exposed by Brexiteers

    The EU’s celebrated trade deal with Canada has been laid bare after a pro-Brexit organization exposed Ottawa has faced a worsened situation since the UK historically Read More »
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    Search net widens for owner of San Rosa as boat’s history emerges

    Authorities are struggling to contact the owners of a shipwrecked boat almost six weeks after the vessel got into difficulty in rough seas off the East Read More »
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    Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting in Avalon, New Jersey: April 11-13, 2017

    The public is invited to attend the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s April 2017 meeting to be held April 11-13, 2017 in Avalon, New Jersey. The meeting Read More »

  • Federal Fisheries Frustration

    This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. Federal Fisheries Frustration. Hear more after this…@alaskafishradio  15:12 Read More »

  • Bullard: The 200-pound trip limit for cod bycatch in the Gulf of Maine will remain in force

    NOAA fisheries will not modify or remove any of the restrictive emergency interim actions governing Gulf of Maine cod it instituted last November, NOAA Regional Administrator Read More »

  • BARBARA DURKIN – Your View: Cape Wind offers only empty promises so far. Spanks the communications manager of National Wildlife Federation

    Her response to this drivel.  Your View: Polluter blockade of New Bedford wind jobs finally falling continued NWF makes jobs claims on behalf of Cape Wind that Read More »
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    Nation’s first mega-offshore wind project stalled for additional study

    On most afternoons in Point Judith, Rhode Island, commercial fisherman Brian Loftus steers his trawler back into port after a 12-hour day. Loftus unloaded some 1,500 Read More »

  • Maine’s youngest lobster fisherman, stepbrother get early start on lobstering career

    As the 32-foot Young Guns lobster boat made its way back into Cutler Harbor shortly after noon on Aug. 30, the crew made ready to unload Read More »

  • Slanted Journalism – Facebook posts used against candidates pursuing seats on Humboldt Bay Harbor Commission

    Ryan Burns, a writer for Lost Coast Outpost, and in this latest article, he dig’s into the back grounds of various candidates running for seats on the Read More »

  • “Stand Clear the Line: Swordfishing on the SouthCoast. – New Swordfishing Exhibit at New Bedford Heritage Center

    No one thinks much about commercial swordfishing and the Port of New Bedford, but 50 years ago or so, that line of work was fairly prominent Read More »
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    Southlander to restore 106-year-old boat for history

    Brian Railton beams from ear-to-ear at the thought of restoring a 106-year-old fishing boat in his backyard.,,, Railton bought the hand line fishing boat just before Read More »

  • Coast Guard responds to sinking fishing boat east of Manasquan Inlet, NJ

     The Coast Guard is responding to a fishing boat that is taking on water Sunday 20 miles east of Manasquan Inlet, New Jersey. Coast Guard Sector Read More »

  • Big Green’s ‘sue-and-settle’ strategy draws pushback from states, Congress

    Scott Pruitt is Oklahoma’s attorney general and he’s fed up with Big Green’s outrageously destructive sue-and-settle attacks using endangered species as a weapon to obliterate America’s Read More »
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    Real Maine lobster rolls from a real Maine fisherman

    Sadie Samuels, a Belfast native, has been a lobsterman since she was 7 years old on her father’s boat and says the best lobster rolls she Read More »
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    Maine Shrimp Hitting Market Thanks to Spawning Study

    Despite a moratorium on the northern Maine shrimp fishing season for the third consecutive year, a few wholesale buyers, restaurants, and markets could have some Maine Read More »

  • Alaska: Commercial fishing groups, feds, testify on salmon management

    Alaska has managed its own salmon since statehood, and neither party is questioning that. But the United Cook Inlet Drift Association and Cook Inlet Fishermen’s Fund, 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 »

  • NMFS bans development of new commercial forage fisheries on West Coast

    Federal officials finalized rules Monday for a on catching forage fish, the small fish that larger species, seabirds and marine mammals depend on for food. The Read More »
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    New Harbour dealt a blow as Daley Brothers decide not to open fish plant for 2018

    The Trinity South community of New Harbour is facing an unheard-of predicament, as Daley Brothers has decided not to open the local fish plant for the Read More »

  • Judge voids snapper season curtailment saying the National Marine Fisheries Services was playing a twisted version of Robin Hood

    A federal judge in Brownsville has struck down a federal emergency ruling to limit red snapper season in Texas, Louisiana and Florida, saying the National Marine Read More »

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