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Rescheduled for 4 pm Friday Join Us: Phone Call with BOEM Director on New York Offshore Wind

March 18, 2016 Mid Atlantic

In response to numerous requests from the fishing community, the phone call with BOEM Director Abigail Ross Hopper has been rescheduled, as shown below. To access the Department of Interior’s press release to announce that BOEM has defined a Wind Energy Area offshore New York, Read Wind Energy Area defines more than 81,000 acres offshore New York for potential wind energy development click here.

WHEN: Friday, March 18, 2016 at 4:00 p.m.

CALL: 888-324-9615

PASSCODE: Offshore

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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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Rescheduled for 4 pm Friday Join Us: Phone Call with BOEM Director on New York Offshore Wind

Ocean Resource Privatization

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

Recent Posts

Just now – F/V Miss Trish bound from Gloucester

This guy takes a mean photo and tells a Hell of a story. Chris Miller, Juneau, Alaska

Fishermen Catch Giant Swordfish, SHOCKED When They Cut It Open

P.E.I. fishers call spring lobster prices ‘a slap in the face’

Grand Bank protest – “Someone is going to have to listen to the fishermen.”

‘Something fishy’ — Protesters sign their disapproval of Kenai River Sportfishing Association

Guest opinion: Dumping on our fisheries – Rep. Les Gara

Seafood fraud cases plummet as NOAA cuts investigators

FISH-NL questions whether complaints against Royal Greenland smokescreen to cover the fact local processors underpaying fishermen

Fraser River pink salmon run a poor haul for U.S. fishermen

Alaska’s 2019 fisheries bring new records, continued concern

Florida Keys Commercial Fishermen’s Association awarded $5,000 in scholarships

Blue crab bait could improve crab, shrimp industries, LSU researchers say

Aerial views of Hurricane Dorian shows absolute destruction in Bahamas

N.C. – 4 Days for public comments – seismic BLASTING from Sept. 15 to Oct. 22

SEA-NL demands province order ‘serious,’ sweeping review of fish-price setting system

Join our Vision – This video showcases the CCPFH’s work.

Regional NOAA head won’t ease limits: Richard Gaines

Deadliest Catch: Where is Captain Casey McManus anyway?!!

New Bedford Ex-Fisherman: Marine Monument “ridiculous” and an “abuse of power.”

Why Scotland’s Struggling Fishing Industry Backed Brexit, and Why Its Fishermen May Regret It

Coast Guard tows disabled fishing boat 90 miles to Portland, Maine

Presidential race radar never hit fishing crises

Jones Act changes would ‘jeopardise countless US jobs’ in offshore wind

P.E.I.’s Western Gulf fishermen excited about highest lobster numbers from survey

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