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Senate committee questions Fish Board appointee over sportfishing support

April 14, 2015 North Pacific

Robert Ruffner, director of the conservation group Kenai Watershed Forum, has faced criticism from some personal-use dipnetters and sportfishermen from Copper River, the Kenai and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. They’ve accused him of supporting commercial fishing interests instead, and have opposed his appointment to the seven-member board that sets and revises fishing regulations in Alaska. Read the rest here 11:00

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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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Senate committee questions Fish Board appointee over sportfishing support

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

Pauly: “Fish moving toward the poles – getting too warm for them,” says less fishing, it can bounce back. umm,They are Moving? Video

The salt and pepper revolution

Divers Looking For WWII Shipwreck Find Enormous Enormous, Gelatinous Orb With Thousands Of Baby Squid Inside

The Donors Behind Greenpeace’s Ridiculous Ideas About Seafood Sustainability

Bahamas search finds life ring but no other sign of El Faro

What’s killing Cape Cod’s salt marshes?

Washington and Oregon officials today cancelled gillnetting scheduled for tonight in the lower Columbia River.

Record Chinook Salmon, Steelhead Returns Reported on Mokelumne River

The Voice Of The Lobster

Blue crab stock declines are concern for Gulf Coast fishermen (video)

Resqunit and Sig Hansen with a successful product demo in Norway – launching the product globally

Updates for upcoming halibut commission meeting – tension mounts

Nova Scotia lobster pound owner wins appeal of ‘grossly disproportionate’ 2-year suspension

Brixham fishermen recover rare ship relic off Dorset coast

Animal welfare organizations in B.C. are furious over the stolen teeth from their dead orca

Coast Guard medevacs 68-year-old man from F/V Tidelands

Sinking trawler safely pulled from Port Townsend Bay

A Soap Opera on the High Seas

Long Island Commercial Fishing Association wants assurances fishing won’t be limited by protection zone

‘A perfect storm’: Beaufort, Bluffton urge Gov. McMaster to take action on shrimp dumping

Pilot Point, Alaska – 1 fisherman dies, 1 missing after skiff overturns

Gloucester Fisherman Robert W. Noonan has passed away

Senator Cantwell casts a net for fishing advice

Brixham is celebrating after being named Port of the Year

Fishermen participating in Alaska’s largest herring fishery have a huge quota to fill next year. But the primary customer isn’t buying.

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