Eastern Shipbuilding to build 194 ft fishing vessel for O’Hara Corporation of Rockland, ME

April 10, 2013 New England

APRIL 5, 2013 — Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., Panama City, FL, has signed a contract with O’Hara Corporation of Rockland, ME, covering construction and delivery of a 194 ft (59.13 m) freezer stern trawler fishing vessel built to a Skipsteknisk, AS, Aalesund, Norway, ST 115 design with a highly efficient hull shape that reduces hull resistance and increases fuel efficiency. It will be built to DNV class +1A1, Stern Trawler, E0 Notation for hull and DNV ICE 1B. Read more@baycountypress

194 ft (59.13 m) freezer stern trawler fishing vessel, Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., ME, O'Hara Corporation of Rockland

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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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