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Feds face fisheries investigation – Organization to examine whether Ottawa is ignoring legislation

August 14, 2014 Canada, National

The initial submission was filed jointly by Environmental Defence Canada, the Natural Resources Defense Council in the U.S. and three private individuals. In it they cite studies that estimate four billion litres of contaminated water leaks from Alberta tailings ponds annually. Read more here 22:11

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Illinois company latest to test market for carp

August 14, 2014 Inland Fisheries

When they arrive at the processing plant, the fish that have been cursed as a menace to American lakes and rivers are raked onto a conveyer belt, some of them still flopping. Brought by the boatload to this facility north of St. Louis, the Asian carp quickly meet a gruesome fate: They are ground to a bloody pulp in a maze of machines that churn their bony bodies into dehydrated meal and fish oil. Read more here 20:22

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Shaheen, Ayotte Welcome Distribution of Fishery Disaster Funds to New Hampshire Fishing Industry

August 14, 2014 New England

U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) today welcomed an announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that New Hampshire will be receiving nearly $1 million in direct federal fishery disaster assistance by Friday. Read more here 17:11

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Sockeye market volatile, say industry experts – Boat prices dropping, What about Wholesale/Retail?

August 14, 2014 Canada

A surge in sockeye numbers and fishing runs in the Fraser river has prices dropping for the fresh catches, but retailers and wholesalers alike say good deals on the fish are unpredictable. Read more here 17:01

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North Star Seafood Inc purveyor to pay $250K for Lacey Act Violations

August 14, 2014 South Atlantic

A Pompano Beach seafood purveyor who federal prosecutors allege conspired to sell live spiny lobsters caught in the Florida Keys to China must pay a $250,000 fine and serve three years probation. Read more here 13:35

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Sad news today. Father of three identified as Vinalhaven lobsterman who died at sea

August 14, 2014 New England

Lobsterman Jeremy Philbrook, 36, was the person who died off Vinalhaven. Philbrook was married to Keeley Philbrook and had three daughters ranging in ages from about 16 years old to younger than one, according to a former high school classmate. Philbrook’s boat, Outnumbered, was taken to Carver’s Harbor. Sadly Read more here 12:57

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Public Enemy #1: Rule changes put green crabs on Maine’s front burner

August 14, 2014 New England

There’s a great big target on the backs of predator green crabs now, thanks to rule changes by the Maine Department of Marine Resources that went into effect this week. Read more here 10:09

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Rick Baumann writes, Is seismic testing, drilling for oil necessary?

August 14, 2014 Mid Atlantic, New England, South Atlantic

From the letter: i.e. – our commercial fishermen have been and are being heavily regulated right now by the Precautionary Principle because conservative lawmakers won’t fund real time quantification of those resources. The “best available science” is way out of date – so precautionary regulations were put in place to protect the resources – even though little or no real time science existed to justify them. Why shouldn’t the same principle be applied when it comes to Atlantic drilling? Read more here 09:05

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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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