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North Carolina: Additional measures to protect marine mammals, fisheries during seismic testing

September 12, 2014 Mid Atlantic

The state is requiring additional measures to protect marine mammals and offshore fisheries for a proposed scientific project that would involve seismic testing off the North Carolina coast for several weeks this fall. The N.C. Division of Coastal Management issued its response Monday to a federal consistency determination submitted by the National Science Foundation. Read the rest here 12:28

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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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North Carolina: Additional measures to protect marine mammals, fisheries during seismic testing

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date

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

Recent Posts

Pandemic economy brings record Southeast Dungeness crab prices

Shrimp fishermen take issue with proposed TED rule

Beaufort boat captain who helped start famed Shrimp Shack dies

German researchers find: Higher CO2 harms all marine life

Tsunami hits New Zealand after magnitude-7.8 earthquake strikes near Christchurch

Father and son keep their family fishing tradition alive

Weekend event to challenge wind farm plans up and down shore

Coast Guard Sector Columbia River save a total catch of 35 tons of shrimp from spoiling Wednesday. thaaank you!

As Our Climate Changes, We Must Base Our Policies in Sound Science – Richard Merrick, Chief Scientist for NMFS

Whale meat snacks seized at German trade fair

Council for Sustainable Fishing – SAFMC Efforts to decrease the number of charter and headboats

Fish plant fined in court for tampering with weighing scales

Port of Digby bustling with boats in wake of renovations

Newfoundland and Labrador cod stocks rebounding, but still critical

Obama Administration Approves Nation’s First Ocean Management Plans

Macaluso: Recreational anglers demonized by Commercial Fishermen in GMFMC hearing

Fisherynation Editorial – Jane (eliminator) Lubchenco’s Consolidation Porn Production. Paid for with your fish.

Commercial Fisherman Carl D. Schwab, of Port Clyde, Maine, has passed away

Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meeting in Austin, TX. April 4 – 7, 2016 Listen Live

Gulf of Alaska catch share proposals move to analysis

About 14,000 young salmon die in Elwha River release of 2.6 million fish

The Blessing is more than the race

Fink forecasts end of seal industry

Deadliest Catch: What Happened to the F/V Northwestern?

Expanded powers for conservation officers in Manitoba

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