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BOSTON – Monday, March 17th, 8am – Please Join CSF, National Fisherman, and former Congressman Barney Frank

March 16, 2014 National

Please Join CSF, National Fisherman, and former Congressman Barney Frank in Boston for a Public Workshop on the MSA Reauthorization.

Date: Monday, March 17th from 8am-10am Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

Room 254B 415 Summer Street Boston, MA 02210 617-954-2000

On-site parking is available for $12/ day for self park or $25/day for valet

Click to view the Invitation to the Boston Workshop: CSF – Boston Invitation

Click to view the Agenda for the Boston Workshop: MSA PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA – BOSTON

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Coast Guard responds to grounded F/V Kim Thanh

March 16, 2014 Pacific

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Coast Guard worked with local agencies and commercial response companies to remove a grounded fishing boat from Ormand Beach, Ventura County, Calif., March 15, 2014. Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach received a distress call from the captain of the fishing boat Kim Thanh reporting that his vessel had run aground late Thursday night. Read more here uscgnews 18:44

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Local view: Sweeping salmon harvest reforms tread water

March 16, 2014 ENGO, Pacific

About a year ago, The Columbian wisely urged the Fish and Wildlife commissions of Oregon and Washington to adopt sweeping salmon harvest reforms on the Columbia River (In Our View: Regulate Gillnets, 12/7/2012). Coastal Conservation Association Washington concurred, and lodged immediate support for the four-year phase-in plan. The sweeping changes would relegate deadly, non-selective commercial gillnets,,, Read more here theoregonian 12:43

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Staying Alive In The World’s Most Dangerous Job w/ Joel Woods – Photo article by John Johnson

March 16, 2014 National, New England

Commercial fishing is the world’s most dangerous job. Even with all of the advances in safety equipment and modern weather prediction the chances of a fisherman being injured or killed still remain very high. Life at sea on a fishing vessel can be very unpredictable,,,Read more here John Johnson is a featured writer at fisherynation.com. Comments are welcome. 11:05

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Minister Shea announces that Canadian seafood exports continued to grow in 2013

March 16, 2014 Canada

March 16, 2014 – Boston, Massachussets The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today released the 2013 trade figures for Canada’s exports of fish and seafood products. Once again, Canada’s seafood exports continued an upward trend, with an overall increase of $268 million or 6.5 percent over the previous year, with total sales reaching $4.42 billion. Read more here gc.ca 10:29

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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update March 16, 2014

March 16, 2014 New England

“The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the update 09:17

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Seals and Sealing Network Geneva Bound – seal hunt is sustainable, humane and necessary

March 16, 2014 Canada

newswire.ca – Representatives of the Canadian Seals and Sealing Network (SSN) are travelling to Geneva to observe the WTO public hearings into the European seal products ban. The hearings, scheduled for March 17 – 19are the latest development in the WTO’s final Appellate body review of the European trade ban. Read more here 09:08

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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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