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Secretary of Defense/former CIA Director backed MLPA Initiative-Leon Panetta: from marine ‘protector’ to whale killer-Dan Bacher

November 19, 2012 National, Pacific

Leon Panetta: from marine ‘protector’ to whale killer

California’s privately-funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative, a process criticized by fishermen, grassroots conservationists, environmental justice advocates and supporters of democracy and transparency in government, has “friends in high places.” http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/18/1162930/-Secretary-of-Defense-former-CIA-Director-backed-MLPA-Initiative

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Oregon Man Sentenced For Commercial Fishing Crimes – SitNews

November 19, 2012 North Pacific

According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Cooper, the evidence established that Freddie Joe Hankins, 47, of Cove, Oregon, had caught the halibut in an area where it was illegal for him to fish under the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) system, and that he falsely stated in his landing reports that he caught the fish in another more distant but legal area http://www.sitnews.us/1112News/111612/111612_fishing_crimes.html

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Dead fish symptom of ailing bayous Low oxygen in Dickinson Bayou

November 19, 2012 Gulf of Mexico

SAN LEON – Powering his small boat across Dickinson Bay, Steve Hoyland Sr. worries about fish kills near the mouth of Dickinson Bayou every summer for the last six years. “I’ve lived here my whole life, but in the last two years you can’t catch (anything),” said Hoyland, 61, part owner of the monthly San Leon Seabreeze News. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Dead-fish-symptom-of-ailing-bayous-4048735.php

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Commission considers ban on octopus harvest Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife

November 19, 2012 Pacific

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is exploring options for banning the harvest of giant Pacific octopuses off a Seattle’s beach and possibly elsewhere in Puget Sound.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/11/18/2371899/fish-and-wildlife-commission-considers.html

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NOAA cop video draws fire in D.C.

November 19, 2012 National, New England

NOAA has released a video and an essay on the Office of Law Enforcement website touting its value to the nation and the fishing industry by ensuring “a level playing field” — even as the agency continued to suppress a $500,000 addendum to a special judicial master’s report on abuses of the badge carried out against commercial fishermen in Gloucester and across the Northeast.

WHERE”S THAT F-ING REPORT!!!

This is the feel good video. http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2012/11/11_16_2012enforcement_video.html

http://www.gloucestertimes.com/topstories/x2120604171/NOAA-cop-video-draws-fire-in-D-C

An up to date website! What are these people getting paid? http://www.noaa.gov/lawenforcementupdates/

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Important From Alaska-NMFS Observer Program

November 19, 2012 National, North Pacific

Hi All: Attached you should find an urgent letter from 14 organizations asking for relief from the soon to be released NMFS observer program. Our sense of urgency arises from the fact that NMFS is scheduled to publish a FINAL rule in early December and implement the observer program early in January 2013. The plan as currently written is totally unacceptable and will do tremendous harm to small business, with no net benefit to the resource. We ask for your help to remedy this situation STAT! ATA represents hook and line salmon fishermen, many of whom also rely heavily on longline fisheries subject to this observer program. This historic pattern of diversification has played an essential role in the viability of small boat trollers and longliners in Southeast Alaska. Read More in Comment Section https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=13b17393f9b7be51&mt=application/pdf&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui%3D2%26ik%3D6627f04c18%26view%3Datt%26th%3D13b17393f9b7be51%26attid%3D0.1%26disp%3Dsafe%26zw&sig=AHIEtbT8Hx6vGIZxWSEoGmq9yEh2TdD_qw

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Ocean Resource Privatization

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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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