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FWC asked to help save oyster industry APALACHICOLA

December 7, 2012 Gulf of Mexico

“If we don’t get something done in the next one-and-a-half years, we’re not going to have a bay,” said Shannon Hartsfield, a fourth-generation oysterman who serves as president of the Franklin County Seafood Workers Association.

http://www.newsherald.com/news/fwc-asked-to-help-save-oyster-industry-1.60900

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Billfish Act Legislation bans import of billfish products

December 7, 2012 South Atlantic

The legislation bans the import of billfish products into the United States. Even though the U.S. has been a world leader with respect to the establishment of catch-and-release practices for billfish species by recreational anglers and a reduction in bycatch by the U.S. commercial fishing fleet through seasonal closures and gear restrictions, this nation was still the world’s largest importer of billfish products.http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2012/dec/07/billfish-act-helps-ensure-future-looks-better/

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Arson charged in boat burning – intended to burn the Slava II because he was having issues with his father and called him “a son of a bitch.”

December 7, 2012 North Pacific

“The male, later identified as Mike Martushoff, advised the officers that he was armed with a shotgun and was intending to burn himself and the Slava II,” police said. Officers then spoke with him via cell phone from a safe distance. The suspect told police he was drinking Vodka. http://homertribune.com/2012/12/arson-charged-in-boat-burning/

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OMG- Outstanding Cartoon Based Off Our Exit Interview With Lobsterman Wannabe Ben Grenon From North Carolina-gmg

December 7, 2012 New England

We taped this interview two days ago and I posted it last night. I have no idea how you could turn this around in a full animation in less than 24 hours. http://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/omg-outstanding-cartoon-based-off-our-exit-interview-with-lobsterman-wannabe-ben-grenon-from-north-carolina/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Goodmorninggloucester+%28GoodMorningGloucester%29

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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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