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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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The Judge has ruled! NMFS must list the North Atlantic Right Whale entanglement facts on paper. Case Closed!
Judge Boasberg has ruled! A new accurate ESA analysis has been ordered by next June. The National Marine Fisheries Service just needs to put the lobster entanglement facts Read More » -
Dungeness Crab Season Delayed Again, This Time Until Mid-December
The Commercial Dungeness crab fishing season has been delayed again, this time due partly to poor meat quality found in samples, and due to humpback whales Read More » -
Alaska promises to do better on Yukon River salmon
International salmon talks with the Yukon River Panel have wrapped up in Whitehorse. In the last seven years, Alaska has delivered its salmon quotas on the Read More » -
FISH-NL calls on FFAW-Unifor to appeal 2018 crab price; questions why union isn’t fighting for inshore harvesters
The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is calling on the FFAW-Unifor to appeal the price of snow crab set in early Read More » -
Poachers Supply Juvenile Eels to Asian Markets
The annual return of blueback herring and alewives this spring to the region’s coastal rivers and streams will be celebrated, but there’s another aquatic migrant that Read More » -
Hagfish “slime eels,” might be North Olympic Peninsula’s next fishery boon
A new, relatively untapped fishery is growing on the North Olympic Peninsula, with at least two fish distributors planning to expand hagfish operations to supply Asian Read More » -
Lobster yachts: Working boats recast as pleasure craft
“Lobster boat” conjures up images of hardy boats and even hardier crews wrangling traps on a roiling sea. However on many of today’s so-called “lobster boats,” Read More » -
Sea Shepherd launches new ship that can ‘outrun’ Japanese whalers
“For the first time we will have the speed to catch and outrun the Japanese harpoon ships, knowing speed can be the deciding factor when saving Read More » -
Stress-free Cape Breton lobsters sought – Quality testing began in 2013 as a way to combat low buyer prices
Some Cape Breton fishermen are working hard to make sure your lobster is stress free. Veronika Brzeski, a marine biologist who works for the Cape Breton Read More » -
Trump’s NOAA Pick Says He Won’t Censor Global Warming Data
The Trump administration won’t censor climate scientists or delete temperature data, nominee for Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said during his confirmation hearing Wednesday. If confirmed, Read More » -
Congressman Schrader to host town hall meeting on sea lions
Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader will host a town hall meeting at noon Saturday, May 30, in Clackamette Park, Oregon City. Schrader is a co-sponsor of a Read More » -
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Halibut opens and herring’s up next. More after this –
Alaska longliners are ready to steam out of town for the Saturday start of the Pacific halibut fishery. Alaska’s catch of roughly 19 million pounds is Read More » -
A ‘Dock to Dish’ Effort Meant to Support N.H. Fishermen
Commercial ground fishermen on the east coast are struggling–so much so that there’s concern about whether they, and not the fish they catch, are an endangered Read More » -
An Alaska fishing commission has worked itself out of a job. But its commissioners still make more than $130,000 a year
The two political appointees, Ben Brown and Bruce Twomley, are being paid even though they’ve all but stopped doing the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission’s most essential Read More » -
Britain’s fishing industry voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU – now it feels ‘betrayed’ by May’s Brexit proposals
Britain’s £1-billion fishing industry, which voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU, says it feels “betrayed” by the current course of Brexit negotiations. A poll before the Read More » -
Offshore Wind: LIPA Blasted at Meeting
A discussion on Nov. 1 of the proposed South Fork Wind Farm, hosted by the East Hampton Town Trustees’ harbor management committee, was blown off course. Read More » -
Coast Guard Medevacs injured Fisherman about 150 miles offshore from Yaquina Bay, Oregon.
The Coast Guard medevaced an injured fisherman Tuesday from a 63-foot commercial fishing boat operating about 150 miles offshore from Yaquina Bay, Oregon. Rescued was Nathanial Read More » -
New England Fishery Management Council pick disappoints Gloucester Mayor – feds pulling bait-and-switch
Gloucester Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken on Tuesday said the June 28 decision to appoint recreational fishing stakeholder Michael J. Pierdinock of Plymouth instead of Northeast Seafood Read More » -
Researcher suspended for “egregious violations.”after dolphin moved to resort community’s pool
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) – Federal officials have suspended a central Florida dolphin researcher for allegedly putting a sick dolphin in a resort community’s swimming pool Read More » -
Marine Corps to comply with marine mammal protection
CHERRY POINT -The Marine Corps has requested a five-year authorization from National Marine Fisheries for incidental deaths of bottlenose dolphins during training at Brant Island Bombing Read More » -
North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting in Anchorage (in progress) December 4-12, 2017
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will meet the week of December 4-12, 2017 at the Hilton Hotel, 500 W. 3rd Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska. The AGENDA and Read More » -
Matthew Roy Bigwood, Commercial fishing boat builder, founder of Bigwood Propeller Corp
Matthew Roy Bigwood, 65, passed away peacefully at his home on August 1, 2020. He was predeceased by his brother, Jonathan L. Bigwood. He is survived Read More » -
NOAA seeks public input on proposed halibut catch sharing plan
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council recommended the catch sharing plan to establish a clear allocation between the commercial and charter sectors in Southeast Alaska and Read More » -
Real Cape Hippie – We Now Harvest The Blood Of Half A Million Horseshoe Crabs A Year
Man I hope horseshoe crabs don’t watch Fox News. All of our bitching about how we are a socialist country now, how the government takes our Read More » -
Commerce Secretary Announces $300 Million CARES Act Allocation – NOAA will disburse funds through partners
As a next step, NOAA Fisheries will use these allocations (see below) to make awards to our partners—the interstate marine fisheries commissions, Puerto Rico, and the Read More »
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I’m wondering when these phony bastards are going to recognize climate change as the major culprit in the north east ground fishery issue instead of blaming fishermen that have more than stayed within their limits for a variety of reasons that these ENGO wags choose to ignore.
When the time comes for eco based management, we’ll see if they have the gut’s and fortitude to do the right thing, but judging from their track records, they don’t.
The issue will be forced.
The continuous ignoring of the fact that there is now a glut of ground fish off the Canadian coast is telling of the issue.
Funny how Crockett mentions the crab issue, something he learned about in comments made by others.
Crockett says,,,,,,,,,,,,,