FISHERYNATION.COM

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

• Ocean Resource Privatization

• Articles Posted by Date

  November 2024

  M	T	W	T	F	S	S
  				1	2	3
  4	5	6	7	8	9	10
  11	12	13	14	15	16	17
  18	19	20	21	22	23	24
  25	26	27	28	29	30

•  

  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

• Recent Posts

  • Alaska fish fight over community development riches turns nasty – Alaska Dispatch

    Divvying up the fish,,,,A case for change,,,,,$54 million in pollock,,,,A positive face,,,,,On the attack,,,,,Profitable halibut fishing,,,,,http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/alaska-fish-fight-over-community-development-riches-turns-nasty?page=full Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 48ft Crabber – Gillnetter, 230HP Detroit Diesel

    Specifications, information and 22 photo’s  click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 15:00 Read More »

  • President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration Posts

    President Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key positions in his Administration. The list is here and there are Read More »

  • Potential Western Atlantic spawning area found for Atlantic bluefin tuna

    Scientists from NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) and the University of Massachusetts Boston have found evidence of Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning activity off the Read More »

  • 72 whales have died on the East Coast in a year. NOAA must take action.

    So, what have we learned from the recent whale deaths off the East Coast — 72 since December 2022? They have compelled local communities to question the Read More »

  • Sending “Chuck” home -15-pound lobster gets new lease on life

    He may have been too big for a pot anyway but a grocery store on Newfoundland’s west coast has spared the life of huge lobster that Read More »
  • 

    Alaska task force’s final report calls for new rules and more research to address seafood bycatch

    Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who created the task force a year ago, released the group’s final report late Thursday. “I look forward to working with task force Read More »
  • 

    Safe opening to lobster fishery in southwest N.S. but harsh weather followed during week one

    The weather was wild and woolly for the first week of the lobster season in southwestern Nova Scotia. After a one-day weather delay to the start Read More »

  • Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection continue escorting 85 Mexican vessels to safe harbor

    BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection crews escorted 53 Mexican shrimping vessels into the Port of Brownsville Saturday and are escorting another 32 Mexican vessels Read More »

  • DFO POACHER PATROL Working Double Time on the Lower Fraser River

     have doubled their patrols on the lower Fraser River to battle poachers who are illegally catching threatened sockeye salmon to sell into the black market. All Read More »

  • Louisiana’s 2017 inshore spring shrimp season set by commission

    Louisiana’s inshore brown-shrimp season will have a staggered opening, beginning May 8 at 6 a.m. in Zone 2 and a week later, May 15 at 6 Read More »
  • 

    Grant: Researchers to find ways to prevent injury in the Dungeness crab fishery

    The grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, totaling $895,000 over the next three years, will allow OSU professors Jay Kim and Laurel Read More »

  • In Texas, Vietnamese American Shrimpers Must Forge a New Path Again

    The sun was still rising when Vinh Nguyen hauled in his first catch of the day. For the next half-hour, he worked methodically, using his bare Read More »
  • 

    SNP and Greens face fight on HPMAs as salmon farmers and fishers join forces in ‘Seafood Coalition’

    Scotland’s nationalist government is facing a huge fight on its proposal for Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs), amid claims they are being used to appease the Scottish Green Read More »

  • Book Review: American Dunkirk, The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11

    When the World Trade Towers collapsed, as many as a million New Yorkers found themselves trapped on the southern tip of Manhattan. Mass transit was shut Read More »
  • 

    Mississippi says commercial speckled trout catch underreported, ends season

    Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Executive Director Joe Spraggins announced Tuesday that the second half of the state’s commercial fishing season for speckled trout, a much-sought Read More »

  • I don’t usually post from this site but, The Beer-Reviewed Stock Assessment: A Fisheries Phenomenon

    We’ve all heard about .  That’s what you get when a team of biologists assesses the health of one stock of fish, and another panel of Read More »

  • Minute silences to be held to mark anniversaries of Haut du Mont explosion and trawler tragedy

    Minute silences will be held this week to mark the one-year anniversaries of two tragedies which claimed the lives of 13 people. The government has announced Read More »
  • 

    Politicians mum on fisheries during election campaign, says advocate

    Kimberly Orren works to spread knowledge of the fishery’s place in Newfoundland and Labrador’s culture, but says politicians haven’t been spreading much of anything about the Read More »

  • Inverness Mounties nab yet another fugitive seal

    Inverness District RCMP always get their man, and increasingly these days, their marine mammal. Mounties were called to Highway 19 just north of Port Hastings on Read More »
  • 

    How a shocking environmental disaster was uncovered after 70 years

    Just 10 miles off the coast of Los Angeles lurks an environmental disaster over 70 years in the making, which few have ever heard about. That Read More »

  • Helicopter crew medevacs an injured fisherman from a vessel in the Gulf of Alaska – video

    JUNEAU, Alaska – Coast Guard  medevaced an injured mariner from a vessel in the Gulf of Alaska, 90 miles south of Seward, Tuesday. The aircrew safely Read More »
  • 

    Coast Guard delivers dewatering pumps, saves boat and crew 66 miles west of Tillamook Head

    The Coast Guard delivered three dewatering pumps, Tuesday morning to a commercial fishing vessel taking on water 66 miles west of Tillamook Head saving the boat Read More »
  • 

    Oregon congressional members ask feds for more comment time on offshore wind energy sites

    Oregon’s U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle, all Democrats, said residents need more time according to input they’ve received. In a Read More »
  • 

    Florida stone crabbers asking FWC to hold off on new rules

    The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission may enforce tougher rules on fishing to help increase the stone crab population, but fishermen say that could destroy their Read More »

• Archives

  • November 2024 (113)
  • October 2024 (170)
  • September 2024 (180)
  • August 2024 (178)
  • July 2024 (171)
  • June 2024 (172)
  • May 2024 (191)
  • April 2024 (191)
  • March 2024 (209)
  • February 2024 (192)
  • January 2024 (211)
  • December 2023 (188)
  • November 2023 (202)
  • October 2023 (180)
  • September 2023 (101)
  • August 2023 (241)
  • July 2023 (237)
  • June 2023 (211)
  • May 2023 (235)
  • April 2023 (210)
  • March 2023 (215)
  • February 2023 (179)
  • January 2023 (187)
  • December 2022 (178)
  • November 2022 (187)
  • October 2022 (190)
  • September 2022 (177)
  • August 2022 (203)
  • July 2022 (186)
  • June 2022 (184)
  • May 2022 (186)
  • April 2022 (190)
  • March 2022 (219)
  • February 2022 (167)
  • January 2022 (192)
  • December 2021 (191)
  • November 2021 (182)
  • October 2021 (196)
  • September 2021 (197)
  • August 2021 (205)
  • July 2021 (221)
  • June 2021 (211)
  • May 2021 (221)
  • April 2021 (204)
  • March 2021 (202)
  • February 2021 (188)
  • January 2021 (195)
  • December 2020 (193)
  • November 2020 (181)
  • October 2020 (204)
  • September 2020 (195)
  • August 2020 (189)
  • July 2020 (205)
  • June 2020 (194)
  • May 2020 (225)
  • April 2020 (218)
  • March 2020 (216)
  • February 2020 (209)
  • January 2020 (233)
  • December 2019 (227)
  • November 2019 (240)
  • October 2019 (241)
  • September 2019 (241)
  • August 2019 (270)
  • July 2019 (288)
  • June 2019 (270)
  • May 2019 (263)
  • April 2019 (223)
  • March 2019 (210)
  • February 2019 (155)
  • January 2019 (117)
  • December 2018 (216)
  • November 2018 (169)
  • October 2018 (218)
  • September 2018 (247)
  • August 2018 (258)
  • July 2018 (259)
  • June 2018 (250)
  • May 2018 (251)
  • April 2018 (246)
  • March 2018 (266)
  • February 2018 (256)
  • January 2018 (278)
  • December 2017 (309)
  • November 2017 (281)
  • October 2017 (288)
  • September 2017 (275)
  • August 2017 (284)
  • July 2017 (287)
  • June 2017 (273)
  • May 2017 (276)
  • April 2017 (275)
  • March 2017 (300)
  • February 2017 (252)
  • January 2017 (288)
  • December 2016 (263)
  • November 2016 (268)
  • October 2016 (287)
  • September 2016 (284)
  • August 2016 (293)
  • July 2016 (286)
  • June 2016 (273)
  • May 2016 (246)
  • April 2016 (267)
  • March 2016 (260)
  • February 2016 (265)
  • January 2016 (269)
  • December 2015 (266)
  • November 2015 (281)
  • October 2015 (289)
  • September 2015 (286)
  • August 2015 (298)
  • July 2015 (294)
  • June 2015 (329)
  • May 2015 (316)
  • April 2015 (317)
  • March 2015 (324)
  • February 2015 (301)
  • January 2015 (332)
  • December 2014 (322)
  • November 2014 (330)
  • October 2014 (382)
  • September 2014 (340)
  • August 2014 (347)
  • July 2014 (376)
  • June 2014 (401)
  • May 2014 (344)
  • April 2014 (341)
  • March 2014 (375)
  • February 2014 (374)
  • January 2014 (360)
  • December 2013 (294)
  • November 2013 (372)
  • October 2013 (391)
  • September 2013 (461)
  • August 2013 (566)
  • July 2013 (526)
  • June 2013 (447)
  • May 2013 (475)
  • April 2013 (508)
  • March 2013 (459)
  • February 2013 (352)
  • January 2013 (265)
  • December 2012 (206)
  • November 2012 (168)
  • October 2012 (187)
  • September 2012 (126)
  • August 2012 (4)

• Tags

  Alaska Alaska Department of Fish and Game Athearn Marine Agency Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Boat of the Week BOEM Brexit British Columbia California canada Coast Guard commercial fisherman commercial fishermen commercial fishing Coronavirus Department of Fisheries and Oceans DFO Dungeness crab FFAW FISH-NL Gulf of Maine Gulf of St. Lawrence lobster Louisiana maine massachusetts National Marine Fisheries Service new-england-fishery-management-council Newfoundland and Labrador New Jersey NMFS NOAA North Atlantic right whale North Carolina. North Carolina Fisheries Association North Pacific Fishery Management Council Nova Scotia Obituary offshore wind offshore wind farm offshore wind farms Oregon Scotland United Kingdom weekly update

• Comments

  • Julie Evans on Bam! Scientists study wind farm construction noise impacts on lobsters… by making big noises
  • borehead - Moderator on Charter Capt. Found Guilty of Illegal Commercial Fishing On LI
  • Capt. TJ Karbowski on Charter Capt. Found Guilty of Illegal Commercial Fishing On LI
  • Jesse Kvale on Alaska fisherman could get six months in prison after attempting to kill sperm whale
  • Joel Hovanesian on Alaska fisherman could get six months in prison after attempting to kill sperm whale
  • Brandon Gaines on Alaska fisherman could get six months in prison after attempting to kill sperm whale
  • james R Lovgren on Election Jitters, Industry Headwinds Undermine Biden’s Final Offshore Wind Auction
  • borehead - Moderator on Scalloper who was asked to take down anti-wind flag: ‘It’s wrong in so many ways’
  • Joel Hovanesian on Scalloper who was asked to take down anti-wind flag: ‘It’s wrong in so many ways’
  • John osmers on ‘I make nothing’: Local fishers weigh leaving the industry as inflation drives up costs
  • Dylan on Alaska’s “Imploding” Fishing Industry Has Shed 38,000 Jobs
  • Marty Connor on Did New Bedford police tell a fisherman to take down his ‘anti-windmill’ flag?
  • Judi Camarato on Second Minke Whale Found Dead Off Jersey Coast Days Since Offshore Wind Survey Ship Returned
  • Ian on Rare whale died of chronic entanglement in Maine fishing gear
  • John osmers on Rare whale died of chronic entanglement in Maine fishing gear
  • borehead - Moderator on Maine Unions Lead on the Green Energy Transition
  • Davis on Right whales and offshore wind: reflections on an uneasy coexistence
  • David zielinski on DOCUMENTARY ON THE WAY EXPOSING THE ILLEGAL SINKING OF THE 110’ MV WILD ALASKAN AND COAST GUARD MISCONDUCT
  • Gordon A Bell on Original Peter Pan Seafood investor wins auction for troubled company’s assets
  • james R Lovgren on James Binniker Named New Director of NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement
  • Joel Hovanesian on James Binniker Named New Director of NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement
  • Chris iversen on California’s trillion dollars floating wind fantasy
  • Mary Howard on IS THE G.A.O. SLOWWALKING ITS INVESTIGATION OF OFFSHORE WIND IMPACTS? By Jim Lovgren
  • Charles Bernier on Effort builds to save historic legacy of sardine carrier ‘Jacob Pike’
  • Brian Pontolilo on Mass. and Rhode Island pick 3 new wind projects, with less power than originally sought
  • Dennis OBrien on Biden – Harris Administration Approves Nation’s Tenth Offshore Wind Project
  • A on Biden – Harris Administration Approves Nation’s Tenth Offshore Wind Project
  • Russell Gary Smith on Offshore wind energy development: A David vs Goliath story
  • Your nightmare on New NOAA opinion: Wind farm pile driving causing “temporary disturbance” causing “temporary disturbance”
  • borehead - Moderator on Feds say SC boat owner may face prison for catching too many fish, then concealing it

• Facebook