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Hired skipper ban heads to court; Silver Bay goes global; Snazzy AK salmon updates

November 12, 2014 North Pacific

Since the IFQ plan was put in place in 1995, the number of hired skippers has topped 50% and the quota owners have been charging high rents for the fish which has inflated the cost for IFQs. The goal is to get back to a predominantly owner operated fleet that provides entry level opportunities for coastal Alaskans. Read the rest here 20:21

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County Council greenlights stricter rules for jellyfish companies

November 12, 2014 South Atlantic

Beaufort County Council approved new rules designed to more strictly regulate local jellyfish operations Monday night. However, representatives of the only existing local jellyfish business and two council members worry the changes are too vague for the business to follow. Read the rest here 17:41

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Is Cape Wind Dead? Leading Constitutional Law Expert: Expensive Cape Wind Power Contract “Forced Down NSTAR’s Throat”

November 12, 2014 Offshore Wind/Industrialization

“The Settlement Agreement between NSTAR, the Department of Energy Resources and Cape Wind makes it crystal clear that the only reason NSTAR agreed to buy Cape Wind power was to secure the Department’s support for the NSTAR-Northeast Utilities merger,” said Tribe. “If that merger fell through, then NSTAR was relieved of its obligation to purchase electricity from Cape Wind.” Read the rest here 13:55

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A Vessel Van Gogh

November 12, 2014 Canada

There’s no end to the artistic talent in Newfoundland and Labrador. Much of it inspired by the scenic fishing villages like Twillingate, Newfoundland. That’s where Jason Sharpe learned to paint from his dad. Together they developed a love for an unconventional canvass, one that floats in harbours and at at sea. See their stunning sterns and beautiful bows and the challenging work faced by a vessel Van Gogh. Watch the video here 13:20

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Mass Governor Elect Baker wants broader input on cod regulations

November 12, 2014 New England

Questioning the federal estimates used to essentially ban commercial cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine, Governor-elect Charlie Baker said it is time for other scientists to have a say. Baker and Senate minority leader Bruce Tarr, who represents Gloucester, said Massachusetts must do its own analysis of what is happening with the cod population in,,, Read the rest here 12:23

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Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 47′ Steel Trawler – C-18 CAT engine new 2013

November 12, 2014 National

dr3739_01 Specifications, information and 23 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 11:47

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Letter: Token haddock gain can’t hide NOAA targets – Paul Cohan, Gloucester

November 12, 2014 Letter to the Editor, New England

Those fish are just hush money for the big boys, as well as a PR talking point to convince the general public that NOAA is really in our corner. As usual, New Bedford and Chatham remain unscathed despite a growing body of data which suggests a much higher degree of interaction between Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank cod stocks, which approaches interdependency. Read the rest here 09:35

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Editorial: NOAA cod measure cannot be allowed to stand without challenge

November 12, 2014 New England

Perhaps the scariest thing about the new “emergency measures” being imposed on Gloucester fishermen and the New England groundfishing industry is that no one seems surprised. Angry? Frustrated? Desperate? You bet — and with good reason. Read the rest here 09:23

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Sullivan Win’s! Begitch Out! Loses Chair, U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommitee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard

November 12, 2014 National, North Pacific

Republican Dan Sullivan won Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, defeating first-term incumbent Democrat Mark Begich. Sullivan led Begich by about 8,100 votes on Election Night last week and held a comparable edge after election workers had counted about 20,000 absentee, early-voted and questioned ballots late Tuesday. Read the rest here 08:00

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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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