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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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  • Peter Shelley (CLF) – Facing the Fishing Facts

    For every fisherman who was willing to publicly admit that things were getting worse out on the water, there always seemed to be an orchestrated group Read More »
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    2 more dead right whales discovered in Gulf of St. Lawrence

    Two more dead North Atlantic right whales have been found in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, says Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The whales were located near Read More »

  • Japanese all in on Newfoundland’s $4.95 crab price after huge struggle

    Japanese buyers finally accepted en masse an FOB snow crab price of $4.95 (US dollars) from Newfoundland in Canada. At the end of last week, buyers Read More »

  • Not wanting to be left out of the bin three money.

    “The first round was money distributed by the federal government to permit holders who caught 5,000 pounds of ground fish in either 2010, 2011, 2012 and Read More »
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    An Organized Act of Civil Disobedience: East Hampton Baymen Take to ‘Truck Beach’ to Protest Court Ruling

    East Hampton baymen and their supporters drove a caravan of 39 trucks onto what is popularly known as Truck Beach on Napeague on Sunday morning to Read More »

  • Western Pacific Fishery Management Council Opposed to Obama MPA Expansion

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    FISH-NL renews call for halt to seismic testing – ‘If plankton isn’t protected you might as well say goodbye to the fish’

    The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is once again calling on the Canada/Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) to suspend Read More »

  • 3 miles of illegal long line seized by South Texas Coast Guard crews

    Last night, Coast Guard Cutter Amberjack sighted multiple vessels moving at a high rate of speed southwards the maritime border. Unable to interdict the vessels, Amberjack Read More »
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    Ex-Fishing Boat Captain Guilty of Dumping Oily Waste Into Pacific

    A former fishing boat captain is facing up to six years in prison for deliberately dumping oily slops into the Pacific Ocean. A jury in Seattle Read More »

  • Your Definition of Bycatch is Most Likely Incorrect

    So why is this important? One reason it’s important is because when the world’s largest ocean conservation organization does not understand what bycatch even is, then Read More »

  • Holyrood plans crackdown on recreational caught seafood black market

    A crackdown on “hobby fishers” who sell lobsters, prawns, crabs, scallops and other seafood for financial gain was welcomed by an industry leader last night. Scottish Read More »

  • Fishermen and politicians: A lost alliance

     On fishermen’s trucks in coastal New England, a popular bumper sticker tells a grim story: “National Marine Fisheries Service: Destroying Commercial Fishermen and their Families Since Read More »
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    Marathon kids grow up to be industry professionals

    When visitors and locals pour in to the Original Marathon Seafood Festival this weekend, they’ll be thinking about the tasty seafood. Maybe they’ll wonder about the Read More »
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    Pembroke river closure upsets scallopers

    The closure of all of the Pennamaquan River to scallop dragging because of the mooring field off the Pembroke boat landing on Hersey Neck has upset Read More »
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    Feds fund new work tent for local shipwright

    Astoria based WCT Marine & Construction, one of the few remaining shipwrights in the region, has secured a $573,000 federal grant to build a self-contained outside Read More »

  • US and Canadian Lobster exporters looking to EU customers for help in averting Swedish proposed ban

    The American and Canadian lobster industries are looking to countries like Spain, Italy and France to help scuttle the Swedish proposal to label lobster ‘invasive.’ “Our Read More »
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    Trial begins for fisherman and fish buyer accused of illegal halibut landings

    A trial is underway in Halifax for a Sambro fisherman, a fish buyer and two related companies accused of illegal halibut landings The case is centred Read More »

  • New Bedford becoming hub for emerging “blue tech” industry

    On a March afternoon at The Black Whale restaurant on New Bedford’s waterfront, steps away from docked fishing boats, Chris Rezendes signaled to waitstaff as his Read More »
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    Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers rescue man from a grounded vessel while on training mission

    The Coast Guard and Alaska State Troopers coordinated efforts to locate and rescue a boater from a disabled and aground 40-foot fishing vessel 127 miles east-southeast Read More »

  • Editor: RTI dumping can’t be ignored. R. Burkosky – CFV BC MAID ll

    As an elected representative for the commercial gillnet fishing fleet, I want to caution the public not to accept an Environment Canada whitewash of this obviously Read More »

  • Carteret officials respond to loggerhead protections

    Nearly a year after threatening a lawsuit over proposed federal rules intended to protect loggerhead sea turtles, Carteret County officials got a response to its concerns. Read More »

  • Battle brewing over fish farming in Great Lakes

    Supporters of the idea say Michigan is perfectly positioned to be a world leader in freshwater aquaculture and home to all the science, engineering and manufacturing Read More »

  • How fishing was gutted by Brexit

    Nigel Farage launched a poster campaign in Grimsby in 2015 and, notwithstanding the fishing industry accounting for a mere 0.03 per cent of the British economy (around half the Read More »

  • Headless Walrus wash ashore in Northwest Alaska; foul play not suspected

    Over a dozen headless walrus carcasses washed ashore along dozens of miles of coastline in northwest Alaska last week. While the number of walruses is a Read More »
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    North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for January10, 2022

    What the Wildlife Federation isn’t telling you about shrimp trawling in NC! Like the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA), the North Carolina Wildlife Federation has very strong Read More »

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