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Four posts from Fish Radio

January 20, 2014 North Pacific

Sen. Murkowski asks for 60 day extend for input on undersea sounds/marine mammals – Listen @fishradio

AK halibut = 19.7 million pounds; IPHC meeting round-up – Read more@fishradio

AK salmon final numbers for 2013; Copper River catches for 2014 – Read more@fishradio

ASMI’s Photo Contest Captures Alaska’s Commercial Fishing Family’s – Listen @fishradio 20:47

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Fuss crops up over N.L. aquaculture job numbers – Province says 1,000 ‘consistently’ employed; critic wants stats audited

January 20, 2014 Canada

A dispute continues over whether or not the provincial government’s claim that aquaculture employs 1,000 people in Newfoundland and Labrador is accurate. And the boast has one critic calling for an independent audit of the industry. Read more@cbcnews 19:16

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Alaska Fish Factor: Good Science Should Drive Fisheries Policy

January 20, 2014 North Pacific

US – Good science should drive all fisheries decisions, and Lite Guv Mead Treadwell says he has the chops to maintain a true course.Treadwell, a Republican who hopes to unseat Democratic US Senator Mark Begich in November’s election, paid a recent visit to Kodiak and “talked fish” in a brief interview. Comment deadline flub – No one appears to know that a deadline to have a say on how man-made sounds affect marine mammals is January 27. Two days after Christmas, NOAA released its “Draft Guidance for Assessing the Effects of Anthropogenic [man made] Sound on Marine Mammals,” which seeks to improve understanding of acoustical impacts on the animals. Read more@thefishsite 13:40

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Maine DMR commissions new patrol boat

January 20, 2014 New England

MOUNT DESERT — The Department of Marine Resources (DMR) gave the Marine Patrol’s enforcement capabilities a serious upgrade last Wednesday morning with the commissioning of a new patrol boat at the Henry R. Abel & Co. boat yard on Somes Sound. Built by SW Boatworks of Lamoine, the Dirigo II is longer, beamier, faster and more rugged than the 16-year-old patrol vessel Dirigo that it replaces. Read more@fenceviewer 12:57

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Just Now!! The 7 am opening of the New Bedford to Fairhaven bridge.

January 20, 2014 National, New England

The number one fish port in the USA is open for business and a parade of vessels went through this morning headed to sea to feed a hungry nation that is increasingly reliant on foreign seafood. 07:22

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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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