The Fisheries Broadcast with John Furlong

June 4, 2013 Canada

Monday June 3, 2013 – Genetically modified salmon, engineered to grow faster, Friday May 31, 2013 – More reaction to the issue of the CETA talks, Thursday May 30, 2013 – Reaction to the premier’s comment about Minimum Processing Requirements, and more here Listen Live – Weekdays 5:30 p.m. NT/ 4:00 Eastern @ CBC Radio One

genetically modified salmon, John Furlong, minimum processing requirements, the CETA talks, The Fisheries Broadcast

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

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

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
April 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

« Mar

April 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
- Lobster harvesters feel forced to fish until they die by DFO policy
  
  Raymond O’Toole finds it hard fishing alone. He is 85. When he took over a lobster license at 14, there was little that could keep him Read More »
- UPDATED: RNLI crew save five fisherman aboard 75 foot fishing vessel Maria Magdalena III
  
  A Cork RNLI lifeboat came to the rescue of five fisherman off the coast of Kinsale today after their boat started to take on water in Read More »
- Good News for Some Local Gulf Fishermen and Property Owners
  
  wjhg.com – Potentially good news for both recreational and commercial fisherman, as well as local property owners. You still have time to file for an oil Read More »
- Brexit at last: Britain leaves the EU as champagne corks fly, Post-Brexit talks gear up for fish fight
  
  The United Kingdom finally cast off from the European Union on Friday for an uncertain future, with Brexiteers claiming victory and popping champagne corks for an Read More »
- Elver fishermen unite as tribes agree to new rules
  
  Last year, Maine fishermen harvested elvers worth more than $11.4 million from the state’s streams and rivers. That made the fishery for the tiny, translucent juvenile Read More »
- Hatchery Fish Often Fail in the Wild. Now We Might Know Why
  
  Wild salmon are struggling to get their groove back.,, For years, Canada has tried to help bolster the salmon population by releasing hatchery-raised juvenile fish, or Read More »
- PFD’s – A case for life jackets for all: By Roger R. Locandro
  
  Andre Penton of Fogo Island died June 27 this year in a boating accident on a pond not far from his home in Joe Batt’s Arm. Read More »
- Seal hunt provokes fury from activists
  
  Humane Society International strongly condemned Canada’s annual Atlantic seal hunt as “absolutely devastating” just hours after it began Tuesday morning. While the federal government says that Read More »
- Video Report: Why Brexit may be the best thing for Britain’s fishing industry
  
  The world was shocked when, in June, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. Many believe the severance will negatively affect Britain’s economy, but Read More »
- Lobster more than a Maine event
  
  The headline said that Whole Foods would no longer be selling Maine lobster in its stores. My first reaction was to wonder what the lowly, although Read More »
- Commercial Fisherman Mark Wells of Phippsburg, Maine, has passed away
  
  Mark Wells, 67, passed away on Nov. 13, 2021 after diabetic issues complicated by Covid. He was born in Kittery, Maine on June 24, 1954 to Read More »
- Aquaculture research proposed for abandoned fish plant in Souris by former AquaBounty employees
  
  The Canadian operation is made up of former employees of AquaBounty, a genetically-modified salmon producer that also has its base in eastern P.E.I. CATC has its eye Read More »
- Deer Isle lobstermen offer whale rule alternative
  
  For Maine lobstermen, 2019 is likely to bring a summer of discontent. Fuel prices are high. Cuts in herring fishing quotas — with further cuts likely Read More »
- Moulton praises local lobsterers for staying at whale rule table at a teleconference they were’nt invited to
  
  U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton on Monday called the Maine Lobstermen’s Association shortsighted for stepping away,,, “It limits their involvement in the solution going forward,” Moulton said on Read More »
- No Cause Identified for 2011 Northern Pinnipeds Unusual Mortality Event
  
  (SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska – NOAA Fisheries announced recently that no specific cause has yet been found for the elevated numbers of sick or dead seals with Read More »
- Nokomis Fishing Capt. Eddie Toomer is the second American to receive the Gladding Memorial Award for sustainable fishing.
  
  Toomer, 68, a fourth-generation commercial fisherman, recently became only the second American to receive the Gladding Memorial Award for sustainable fishing. The annual award, started by Read More »
- Pitted against the hook-and-line halibut fleet are 16 Bering Sea trawlers – Conflict threatens to close Bering Sea halibut fishery
  
  Those likely to suffer include fishing crews from Alaska to Oregon and vessel owners who invested in the halibut haul after it was privatized in 1995 Read More »
- Coronavirus: B.C. commercial fishery amid sectors fearing COVID-19 current market fallout
  
  B.C.’s seafood sector, currently strike by a collapse in exports to Asia for the reason that of COVID-19 all through the new Lunar New Yr, is Read More »
- P.E.I. lobster fishermen vote to move up setting day in the spring
  
  “We’re coming off back-to-back seasons here where the season was extended into July,’’ said Mike Dixon, co-chair of LFA26A lobster advisory committee, which represents close to Read More »
- Vineyard Wind Gasping for Air Until 2020
  
  The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has delayed the construction off our coast of Vineyard Wind, the country’s first commercial scale offshore wind farm, until 2020. Read More »
- Earth Day: Not a Single Environmental Prediction of the Last 50 Years Has Come True
  
  We should be thankful that the gloom-and-doom predictions made throughout the past several decades haven’t come true. Fear-mongering about explosive population growth, food crises and the Read More »
- N.B. First Nation seeking access to fishery has international implications
  
  Another Indigenous fishery is in the works in the Maritimes — and this one has international implications. Fishing rights are one of the big prizes for Read More »
- Privatize – Eliminate – Consolidate – Gloucester groundfish sectors consolidate
  
  The decline of the region’s commercial groundfish industry has claimed another casualty — Gloucester-based Northeast Fishery Sector III. The sector, one of two Gloucester-based groundfish sectors Read More »
- Ray Hilborn – Environmental cost of conservation victories – Marine Protected Areas (MPA)
  
  To establish any net environmental benefit from large ocean MPAs, we must determine what is actually “saved” and at what cost when the saving causes reduced Read More »
- Massachusetts Lawmakers to help small-boat fishermen qualify for third round of federal disaster aid
  
  This is for the third installment of designed in 2012 to help fishermen catch some of the dollars they lost under significant cuts to groundfish catch Read More »