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“We fished squid this year where we never fished before,” Northern Cal fishermen catch abundant squid

December 6, 2014 Pacific

have reported an above-average squid harvest. “We just followed them up there,” said Neil Guglielmo, captain of a 70-foot fishing vessel based in Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles. “There was so much squid. “We fished squid this year where we never fished before,” Guglielmo said. Read the rest here 19:52

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Commercial fisherman killed, 3 others pulled to safety, after boat capsizes near St. Lucie Inlet

January 20, 2013 South Atlantic

PORT SALERNO, Fla. – A commercial fisherman from Belle Glade is dead and several others are recovering after investigators said a giant wave capsized their boat near the St. Lucie Inlet on Saturday. Florida Fish and Wildlife said Fransico Rodriguez, 60, was found floating in the water and deceased. George Delgato, Jorge Ramaro and Carlos Carmellon were also in the boat but survived. John Summers, 72, was out fishing for Mackerel on Saturday when he noticed someone floating in the water. Read more, video

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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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