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Buying Out Maine’s Fishing Communities? by Ben Martens

September 20, 2012 New England

Fisheries represent a unique opportunity to think about our natural environment and how it interacts with society. Fish are the last of our wild food sources and, because of their cultural importance to New England, there is still a vast diversity in how these resources are managed, harvested and even consumed. Within the management system, there is uncertainty surrounding this resource because it is highly mobile and out of sight; it is much more difficult to count fish,,,,,,

http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Buying-Out-Maines-Fishing-Communities/15009/

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SMAST issues scallop industry yellowtail bycatch advisory, warns industry approaching quota

September 20, 2012 New England

WASHINGTON (Saving Seafood) Sept. 20, 2012 – To avoid reaching the yellowtail limit prematurely, the Fisheries Survival Fund, an industry group that includes the majority of full-time,

limited-access scallop permit holders, urged scallopers to avoid yellowtail by-catch by utilizing SMAST’s by-catch avoidance program. To view SMAST’s yellowtail advisory,

which contains a graphical summary of the closed areas and areas of high yellowtail by-catch, click here

http://www.savingseafood.org/fishing-industry-alerts/smast-issues-scallop-industry-yellowtail-bycatch-advisory-warns-industry-approaching-2.html

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Fisheries committee proposes alternatives to help struggling fishermen

September 20, 2012 New England

The groundfish committee proposal would allow fishermen to work inside large areas currently closed to fishing that are not considered critical habitat areas. Under the proposal, access to closed areas would be allowed only from May 1 to Feb. 15 to allow fish time to spawn and all vessels would be required to use approved types of fishing gear.

Former New Bedford mayor John K. Bullard, who recently began work as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s regional administrator for fisheries, attended Wednesday’s meeting and spoke in favor of the measure. “There are now only 400 active groundfish vessels in the Northeast,,,,,,,

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120920/NEWS/209200360/1011/TOWN10

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Pacific Oyster Genome Shows Stress Adaptation And Complexity Of Shell Formation- Brett Smith for redOrbit.com

September 20, 2012 Uncategorized

Previous theories on oyster shell construction were not heavy on details, but the new study identified 259 shell proteins and revealed the complexity of the formation process.

Some proteins such as Laminin and different collagens were highly expressed in shells, suggesting some relation to animal connective tissues.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112697552/pacific-oyster-genome-shell-construction-092012/

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Fishing fund hires ex-AG for probe

September 20, 2012 New England

Former state Attorney General Scott Harshbarger is under contract to — and has already begun an assessment of — the “governance,

policies and operations” of the Gloucester Fishing Community Preservation Fund, the locally-based nonprofit corporation announced.

Fund President Vito Giacalone declined comment Wednesday, a day after the fund announced the hiring of Harshbarger

who agreed to take on the task last month, the former attorney general said in a telephone interview. Instead,

Giacalone referred questions to the fund’s newly hired spokesman, David Guarino.

http://www.gloucestertimes.com/topstories/x550074880/Fishing-fund-hires-ex-AG-for-probe

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MD’s Crab Harvest Leads Nation – WBAL News

September 20, 2012 Uncategorized

Maryland’s crab harvest last year led the nation. That’s according to figures released Wednesday by the National Marine Fisheries Service.

http://www.wbal.com/article/94116/2/template-story/MDs-Crab-Harvest-Leads-Nation

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Sometimes all it takes is a comment to remind me of why I started doing this. Activism.

September 20, 2012 National, New England

An article in the Washinton Examiner was posted. “A fisherman sues the feds for acting like crooks” August 16, 2012 by Ron Arnold. From the article: As raw December 1998 swept over the Atlantic off New Bedford, Mass., scallop fisherman Larry Yacubian brought around his boat, Independence, hailed by the Coast Guard. The officers who boarded his fishing vessel didn’t tell Yacubian it was a setup to coerce out of him a ruinous fine and to destroy his life so thoroughly he could never get it back…… Two weeks ago, Captain Yacubian filed the lawsuit that may well restore his money and his life after nearly 15 years of gut-wrenching bludgeoning by the NOAA.

I was going through my emails and saw this [email protected] , Kligo, First: How is the government responsible for a case 15 years ago. Second: Do you think once a government changes that everybody is fired and every position refilled with “conforming” ones? Third: Illegal presidency?

I did respond and linked some articles that he needed to read.

http://www.fishnet-usa.com/NOAA_OLE_GCEL%20Shakedown.htm

http://www.fishnet-usa.com/Decade_of_law_enforcement.pdf

http://washingtonexaminer.com/a-fisherman-sues-the-feds-for-acting-like-crooks/article/2505139

Activism. Live it. Be it.

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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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