ICCAT Ups Canadian Share of Bluefin tuna quota

November 21, 2017 Canada

Fishermen in Atlantic Canada will be able to catch another 77 tonnes of Bluefin tuna next year after an international commission agreed to raise the annual quota following an improvement in stocks. The increase was approved Tuesday during a meeting in Marrakech, Morocco of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). Environmental group ‘disappointed’ Still, the increase was denounced by the Ecology Action Centre, click here to read the story 17:47

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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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Ocean Resource Privatization

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

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

Lobster poacher jumps into the water, challenges game wardens to come and get him. They waited!

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Unalaska Tanner crab ends

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As Black Sea Bass Stake New England Claim, Fishermen are Concerned.

New Zealand’s largest salmon farmer rechecks results after half its farms failed to meet environmental standards

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Coast Guard medevacs crewman from F/V Poncho 60 miles south of Intracoastal City

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Commercial fishermen want state to halt Columbia River gillnet ban

For Sale

UPDATED: Video – F/V Hornet sends May Day, F/V Exodus, USCG respond.

Feds to let fishermen carry over unused quota

Fishing group’s lawsuit challenges fed review of offshore wind project

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Sipekne’katik fisherman’s protest dumping of lobster ‘not acceptable,’ chief says

Injunction Denied for Bay Area Herring Fishing

King concerns drive Cook Inlet fisheries

Video: Coast Guard responds to 2 cases off of Nantucket

Govt considering ditching fishing boat camera plans

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