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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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    Daniel Dunbar is a groundfisherman. So, too, are Robbie Dunn and Randy Mustake, his crew members aboard the fishing vessel Little Mako, which was loading up Read More »
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    Bitter Denunciations at Marathon Meeting on Wind Farm

    Opponents and advocates of the proposed South Fork Wind Farm, a 15-turbine, 90-megawatt installation planned approximately 30 miles east of Montauk, spoke for more than three Read More »

  • CHRISTINA S – Karstensen Shipyard delivers newbuild for Fraserburgh

    Newbuild 470 “CHRISTINA S” was handed over to the partnership between Freedom Fish Limited, Shannon Fishing Limited and Peter & J. Johnstone Limited on 13 September Read More »

  • 3-Minute Market Insight – Rockfish Market Update: Prices, Inventories, Fresh vs Frozen Markets

    Bad weather kept boats at the docks, drying up both fresh and frozen inventories. The fresh market for Rockfish fillets is 40 cents higher than frozen Read More »
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    New York’s energy policy depends on an impossible fantasy

    Last Wednesday, the Cuomo administration blocked construction of the proposed Northeast Supply Enhancement project, a 24-mile gas pipeline that would run from New Jersey across New Read More »

  • Why is the Marine Stewardship Council honeymoon ending for Alaska salmon?

    Despite recent re-certification of Alaska salmon to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standards for the third time, Alaska Senators are begging large US grocery chains to stop Read More »
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    Falmouth working boat in Carrick Roads vandalised at Penpol Feock

    Erin Bastian said her father Mike had been working and living in the local community all his life. She explained that at the end of March Read More »

  • On the Fisheries Broadcast @ 16:30 today, NH Groundfisherman David Goethel

    Jamie Baker and Dave discusses the Gulf of Maine cod situation. Click here for the link. At the top, click Listen, then click listen live, Radio Read More »

  • Jim Lovgren – Fishery managers responsible for Summer Flounder mismanagement

    Earlier this year the state of New Jersey was found to be out of compliance by the Atlantic States Marine Fishery Commission [ASMFC] in regard to Read More »
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    Local fisherman takes advantage of being able to sell crab on Kodiak docks

    Fresh seafood seems like it’d be an easy thing to get in a fishing town like Kodiak. But it wasn’t until recently that it was legal Read More »
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    John Gillett: Fishery mismanaged while people go hungry

    Canada is doing the world a big injustice by mismanaging our Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries. If our fisheries were managed right, we could supply a million Read More »
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    62nd Annual Disabled Vet’s Day Fishing Outing – Veterans hit the seas for annual fishing trip

    The boats set off from the Quincy Yacht Club in Houghs Neck on Wednesday morning. Local lobstermen and charter fishermen donated their boats and their time Read More »
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    Prospect area mackerel fishermen demand answers after lucrative season halted by DFO

    The fishermen were prepared to set up a roadblock if they didn’t hear back from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans about why the season was halted. Read More »

  • Protesters link fish and chips to dolphin by-catch

    The group Maui and Hector’s Dolphin Defenders says the nets used to catch fish such as mullet and school shark – used in takeaways – trap Read More »

  • Robots used to cut crab may actually help keep processing jobs in Newfoundland and Labrador

    The world’s first full-on crab plant robot sits inside a tall, plastic chamber roughly the size of a shipping container. A conveyer belt carries the splayed Read More »

  • New South Wales mock share-auction website crashes!

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  • Breakwaters have protected Galilee from storms for over a century. Now repairs are needed

    On a recent overcast morning fisherman Mike Marchetti boards his vessel Mister G, a 50-foot lobster boat converted into a scalloper, and gently pulls out of Read More »
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    Nova Scotia calls tender for Fundy tidal power site

    The energy is there and so is the wire. All you need to do is catch it and put it in the wire and the province Read More »
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    Banning fishing in ‘monument’ a grave mistake

    I was a founding partner of Boston Sword & Tuna, which today employs over 180 Massachusetts residents with good wages and benefits. The company processes and Read More »
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    Dismal B.C. herring season sparks renewed calls for moratorium

    Three days after setting his nets out in the Strait of Georgia between B.C.’s mainland and Vancouver Island, Josh Young headed back home to Pender Harbour. Read More »

  • Travis Van Hill’s crew was back fishing on Okanagan Lake, but this time without their captain

    A month after Travis Van Hill’s shrimp boat capsized on Okanagan Lake, his crew took to the water for the first time. Van Hill drowned when Read More »

  • Devon fishermen’s names to be read in memorial roll call

    A memorial service for fishermen lost at sea will see the names of those who have died read out for the first time. Among those remembered Read More »

  • NEFMC to ask Congress in its rewrite of the Magnuson-Stevens Act to establish a certification program for seafood

    The council voted 16-0 at the end of its three day meeting in Mystic, Conn., to ask Congress to include in its rewrite of the Magnuson-Stevens Read More »

  • Builder: Bluenose II (wink!) meets specs – Consortium responds to concerns design could lead to sinking

    BRIDGEWATER — The upright walls in the hull of the Bluenose II have been inspected and meet some of the highest standards in the industry, says Read More »

  • NEFSA defeats menace to iconic Maine lobster

    Lobstermen in Maine are breathing a sigh of relief after regulators walked back a plan that would have put many fishermen out of business. The state Read More »

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