2014 Working Waterfront Festival

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New Bedford!! – Complete Guide to the 2014 Working Waterfront Festival – September 27th, 28th

September 26, 2014 New England

The nation’s number one commercial fishing port hosts the annual Working Waterfront Festival, a free, family friendly celebration of commercial fishing culture. The 2014 event takes place on the working piers of New Bedford’s historic waterfront on Saturday, September 27th and Sunday, September 28th. Read the rest here, and get to the festival! 07:08

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FREE HEALTH SCREENINGS AT THE 2014 WORKING WATERFRONT FESTIVAL

September 25, 2014 New England

Fishing Partnership Support Services will be on Steamship Pier all weekend. Stop by our booth to learn about all the services we bring to the fishing community, including help with health insurance, free safety training, mobile dental clinics, CPR/Ergonomics training, and more. Read the details here 14:01

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Maritime Authors Featured at 2014 Working Waterfront Festival in New Bedford

September 9, 2014 New England

Three recent titles from The History Press will be featured at this year’s event., Nemasket River Herring, The Last of the Fairhaven Coasters: The Story of Captain Claude S. Tucker and the Schooner Coral, Two cookbooks will be featured, Children’s authors Meghan Lapp and Daisy Nell will present story time aboard the Schooner Ernestina and the visiting Pinky Schooner Ardelle. Read the rest here 12:16

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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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