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Fishery Disaster Assistance Soon to Be Available to Georgia Shrimpers

April 12, 2019 South Atlantic

The Southern Shrimp Alliance is pleased to inform the Georgia shrimp industry that $1.062m in financial assistance has been made available to address the 2013 Georgia shrimp fishery disaster. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced the funding in a March 27, 2019 press release. In a February 10, 2014, letter to then U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, then Georgia Governor Nathan Deal filed a request for fishery disaster assistance pursuant to section 312(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA). >click to read<17:07

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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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Fishery Disaster Assistance Soon to Be Available to Georgia Shrimpers

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

Coast Guard rescue crews assisted a Canadian-flagged fishing vessel early Friday morning

Alaska: 131-year-old fish plant, other sites to be considered for National Register of Historic Places registry

Kodiak jig fishermen explore other markets during poor cod season

Nova Scotia to Cooke Aquaculture: Pay up on $18m loan

Court OKs deal to keep Jessie’s Ilwaco Fish Co. afloat

Video monitoring of Kenai’s dipnetters in the works

One-Stop Longline Shop

On the Pipe? The Freaks at EDF that brought you Catch Shares now wants you monitored 100% following THEIR failure!

The women behind the sardine factories of Southwest Harbor

Crab Harvesters Demand Fair Share

Jake’s Story: The Art on Ellefson Dock

NS: Cooke Aquaculture must pay back $9-million provincial loan, with interest

Inoperable weather buoys at mouth of the Columbia River stir concern

Clock ticking as Fraser River slide blocks spawning salmon: Wilkinson

Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 44′ Fiberglass Scalloper with NGOM Scallop Permit

A meeting with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke – Concerns aired about Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument

Ginger Zee of ‘Good Morning America’ heads north to work a fishing boat on ‘Deadliest Catch’

We’re back after a loss of internet access due to the storm.

Fourth Circuit Limits Reach of Federal Regulation Under the “Major Questions” Doctrine as it Relieves Shrimp Trawlers from Clean Water Act Permitting

City of Morro Bay seeking answers on nearby offshore wind project

Remembering the F/V Joanna C fishing boat tragedy on second anniversary

Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission Chief Reacts To Being On Chopping Block

Rising tide of America’s sustainable seafood by Ray Hilborn

UN top court to rule on Japan whale hunt in Antarctic

Tasmanian researchers say Scallop deaths linked to seismic surveys being carried out on seabed

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