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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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  • Why Are We Importing Our Own Fish?

    As go scallops, so goes the nation. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, even though the United States controls more ocean than any other country, Read More »

  • Industry sponsors sardine survey along the Northwest Coast – Amount of fish is tied to profits and number of jobs for fishery

    Tired of what they saw as incomplete surveying that led to an underestimated sardine population – and commercial harvest guideline – each year, processors in the Read More »
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    Expanding Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico is Causing High Anxiety Among Shrimpers

    For Tran, it is an adventure. For his family, it is a trade they had known in Vietnam before they made their way to Port Arthur, Read More »

  • Alaska salmon season may finish a bit short of forecast

    Alaska’s salmon season has seen ups and downs, but it will be a stretch for the total catch to reach the forecasted 221 million fish. “It Read More »

  • Maine Lobster Fest Organizers Not Plagued By Concerns Over Lobsters’ Feelings

    People really like lobster. The Maine Lobster Festival draws tens of thousands of people to Rockland each summer, just as July is fading into August. According Read More »

  • Drift fishermen ease into season

    The Kenai Dock is busy this time of year as drift gillnetters put the last touches on their boats, launch them into the mouth of the Kenai Read More »

  • California’s Marine Protected Area (MPA) focus of Wednesday’s Collaborative Meeting

    A controversial and confusing proposal is circulating throughout Santa Barbara’s fishing industry and, environmental circles. It centers on plans to expand Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in Read More »
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    Coronavirus: Rhode Island’s commercial fishery and aquaculture industry hit hard

    Until the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rhode Island aquaculture industry had been expanding. In 2019, the the total value of shellfish crops was $5.8 million and the Read More »
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    F/V Misty Blue: Divers will look for missing fishing boat Thursday

    The Coast Guard has suspended its search for the two fishermen who went missing after their boat sank off the coast of Nantucket, and because of Read More »

  • Tally’s hauls big tuna from the woods

    What would you do if you came across a 400-pound tuna in the woods? Perhaps a better question: What in the world was a dead tuna Read More »

  • Judge Sets Texas Straight on Oysters

    A local navigation board had no authority to issue an oysterman an exclusive lease to grow and harvest oysters in Galveston Bay, as only the state Read More »
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    Captain, crewman remembered 15 years after F/V Lady Luck’s sinking

    Fifteen years after their tragic deaths in the sinking of the dragger Lady Luck, Capt. Sean Cone and his crewman Daniel Miller are still fondly remembered Read More »

  • Filed on behalf of Fishermen, Pacific Legal Foundation Sea Otter Lawsuit Dismissed

    “Obviously, we think the judge’s decision is wrong,” said PLF attorney Jonathan Wood, whose sole option, as detailed by the judge, is to pursue an Administrative Read More »
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    California chinook returns a ‘game-changer’ – California’s chinook may explain why Southern Resident Killer Whales haven’t shown up in BC

    Last week, when southern resident killer whales failed to show up in B.C. coastal waters by the end of June, as they usually do, it caused Read More »

  • Getting Screwed – Fish plant workers wonder if OCI can live up to employment promises

    Fish plant workers on Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula say they’re not confident in assurances about jobs and are questioning whether their employer is living up to promises Read More »

  • Editorial: Letter backing ‘aid’ plan misleads fishermen, taxpayers GDT

    But our independent fishermen do not need — and, for the most part, do not want — bailouts, buyouts and more unsubstantiated rhetoric about declining stocks. Read More »

  • Commercial fishers demand stricter enforcement and penalties for illegal lobster sales – Federal and provincial governments need to step-up enforcement

    Uncertainty on the future of the commercial fishery will potentially put the sustainability of the lobster catch and jobs at risk according to the leaders of Read More »

  • ASMFC Summer Meeting, August 5-7, 2014 in Alexandria, Virginia

    The information about the 3 day meeting, including attending the meeting in listen mode only via the webinar broadcast can be found here.  09:56 Read More »

  • Dan Bacher – Crab and salmon fisheries threatened by a ‘historic crisis’

    Legislators, members of commercial fishing families, fishing group representatives and Brown administration officials testified about the dire situation that the salmon and crab fishery is in Read More »

  • Environmental Defense Fund — Monitoring isn’t the fisherman’s enemy

    The port of New Bedford has been rocked by allegations of widespread and longstanding corruption by one of the industry’s biggest players. It is understandable that Read More »

  • Lobster licensing fee fairer say’s seafood firm

    The land-based side of the lobster industry in Nova Scotia has rejected the penny-per-pound concept in favour of a licensing fee. “We believe this is a Read More »
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    Crab Fishermen on Strike

    Commercial Dungeness crab season is allowed locally as of midnight on January 5th. However, we are seeing no crab gear in the water.  Local Dungeness crab Read More »

  • Humboldt County Officials Respond to Recent Turbine Blade Collapse at East Coast Vineyard Wind Farm

    Operations were suspended this week at Vineyard Wind 1, an offshore wind farm located about 35 miles off the coast of mainland Massachusetts, after a damaged wind Read More »
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    Video: Coast Guard medevacs commercial fisherman 40 miles northwest of Johns Pass, Florida

    The Coast Guard medevaced a 65-year-old man from a commercial fishing vessel 40 miles northwest of Johns Pass, Florida, Monday. A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Read More »

  • Sandbar blocking West Point Harbour concerns scallop fishermen

    A sandbar has blocked the mouth of the West Point Harbour in West Point, P.E.I. and fishermen say they are concerned with what may have accumulated Read More »

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