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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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    Fishing fraternity lens its weight to camera implementation

    The cost of rolling out monitoring cameras on their vessels is worrying Nelson’s smaller fishing operators who say the costs of installing them could push a number Read More »

  • Obituary, Jerry P. Wollen 58 Petersburg, Alaska

    Gerald “Jerry” Patrick Wollen, 58, was born in Aberdeen, Washington on June 14th, 1957 to parents James and Ruth. Jerry’s final resting place will be on Read More »
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    Have you caught a Pacific pink salmon in England? The Environment Agency would love to hear from you!

    Up until recently, catching a Pacific pink salmon was as rare as netting a red herring. However in 2017 unprecedented numbers of this species were reported Read More »
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    Maine fishermen gather in opposition to the push for offshore wind development

    The New England Fisherman’s Stewardship Association held a ‘Save Our Fisheries’ Fundraiser to show their disapproval of the bill and project. Over fifty local businesses and Read More »
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    NOAA’s Sanctuary Expansion Proposal: ‘The nail in the coffin’ of American Samoa’s tuna industry

    A regional fishery council warned that the Biden administration’s plan to block off the U.S territorial waters in the Pacific would be the end of American Read More »
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    Coast Guard responds to boat collision in James River, Virginia

    The Coast Guard responded to a vessel collision Tuesday morning near the Newport News Small Boat Harbor. The Coast Guard was alerted at 7:50 a.m. that Read More »

  • “The Fluke Fairness Act,” – Schumer Announces First-ever Legislation to End Unfair Fluke Regulations that Deeply Punish Long Island Anglers

    Currently, flawed, decades-old data-sets are used to set the limits for recreational and commercial fluke allocations along the East Coast.  Furthermore, because of flaws in the state-by-state Read More »
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    British Columbia court grants injunction to fish farm, ending protests

    A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted an injunction to Marine Harvest Canada’s Midsummer Island farm, which is located amid a series of islands in the Read More »

  • Larry the Lobster of Cape Breton is one in a million

    Rocket’s Lobster Pound in Cape Breton says a 77-year-old fisherman caught a white lobster this week in Lingan. The chance of catching this breed is estimated Read More »

  • What’s It Really Like to be a Commercial Fisher? – An interview with California Fisherman Mike Hudson

    On the June 8, 2014 edition of Work with Marty Nemko, I talk with Mike Hudson, veteran commercial fisher.  Can you actually make a living sustainably Read More »

  • After a harrowing rescue in the cold Atlantic, a fisherman wanted two things: A new guitar, and Nickelback tickets

    After a harrowing rescue in the cold North Atlantic, and more than 48 hours on a life raft with six of his fellow crewmates, fisherman David Read More »

  • Opinion: Maine can bring back its groundfishing boats By Bert Jongerden,general manager of the Portland Fish Exchange,

    For many members of the Maine fishing community, the issue has been boiled down to “us” versus “them,” lobstermen versus groundfishing. But the divide is artificial. The Read More »
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    Cemre delivers Norwegian LNG-powered fishing vessel

    Turkish shipbuilder Cemre has handed over an LNG-powered vessel to Norwegian fishing company Teige Rederi. Cemre said in a statement on Friday it had delivered the Read More »
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    Trapped spawning salmon to be flown over Fraser River rock slide in B.C.

    Tens of thousands of spawning salmon stuck behind a rock slide on the Fraser River in a remote part of British Columbia will be flown over Read More »

  • Ron McKinley wants TFW exemption for lobster processing plants

    P.E.I.’s fisheries minister is calling on Ottawa to ease up on temporary foreign worker restrictions in Atlantic Canada lobster processing plants. Ron McKinley raised the issue Read More »

  • NOAA At-sea monitoring suspended (for now) – To start again March 1, when boats must pay costs

    NOAA Fisheries exhausted its budgeted money for at-sea monitoring of Northeast fishing sector groundfish boats on Feb. 16 and has suspended all required monitoring until the Read More »

  • Extreme Seafoods has rough entry into the Bristol Bay fishery

    Extreme Seafoods made waves as they entered the Bristol Bay fishery this year. The company, founded in 2013, purchased the Paug-Vik Corp facility in Naknek that Read More »

  • Are there ecological merits to trawling the seabed?

    Trawling the seabed for fish is an environmental disaster; it wrecks ecosystems, destroys fish stocks and leaves behind a marine desert. Right? Environment campaigners say so. Read More »
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    Destin convoy: Brothers helping brothers ‘because we should’

    Taking everything from generators to Gatorade, a group of Destin fishermen and others loaded up in the wee hours of Thursday morning and headed to Louisiana to help those in need after Read More »

  • Research shows dogfish are a significant threat to cod

    February 7, 2013 — Dogfish provide significant competition for cod.   The estimated biomass of dogfish is 240,000 tons vs. only around 23,000 tons for both Georges Read More »

  • Bighead carp caught by commercial fishermen in Lake Pepin

    A 47-pound bighead carp was caught in a seine net by commercial fishermen on Nov. 16, in Lake Pepin near Frontenac, according to the Minnesota Department Read More »
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    Delaware: Hungry for holiday crabs? Better get out the wallet – “best price that we’ve gotten for crabs in 26 years,,,”

    This year’s crabbing season didn’t start out quite so hot for Smyrna’s Brian Hoffecker, Thankfully for Mr. Hoffecker, along with many other commercial crabbers in Delaware, Read More »
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    Feds weigh costly new regulation for Maine lobstermen

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration requested comment on the proposal in a notice posted to the Federal Register on Wednesday. Maine is the only state Read More »

  • Alaska fishermen consider leaving Copper River/Prince William Sound Marketing Association

    In 2005, the fleet of Prince William Sound fishermen who hang curtain-like nets from their boats to catch salmon voted to assess itself a 1 percent Read More »

  • Expanded powers for conservation officers in Manitoba

    Don’t call them natural resource officers anymore. The Manitoba government introduced legislation today that would formally recognize conservation officers as  with the powers of peace officers. Read More »

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