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Do Not Allow Proposed Environmentally Damaging Aquaculture Activities Regulations – Coalition to Canadian Prime Minister

February 17, 2015 Canada

Business leaders, commercial and recreational fishing associations, scientists, lawyers and environmentalists are calling on Prime Minister Harper to halt the implementation of the proposed Aquaculture Activities Regulations. The changes will exempt the aquaculture industry from the Fisheries Act provisions that “prohibit the release of deleterious substances into water frequented by fish.” Read the rest here 13:55

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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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Do Not Allow Proposed Environmentally Damaging Aquaculture Activities Regulations – Coalition to Canadian Prime Minister

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

Genetic study of river herring populations identifies conservation priorities – Most by catch in Mid Atlantic and Southern New England

Wake Up, Fishermen! Proposed closure of coral grounds in Gulf of Maine has lobster industry on edge

F/V Bear still stuck in the sand at Island Beach State Park

Menhaden: The stock is healthy, so should harvest cuts remain?

Stikine sockeye run is the best return in a decade

Scam Alert: Claims Offshore Wind Will Soon Power The World Are Pure Bunkum

Former CCA Executive Director Rep. Liz Pike, R-Camas Ignores The Fact That Commercial Fishermen Harvest Fish For The People

Tradex:It’s a Buyers Market for Pacific Cod; 2015 Alaska Salmon Fisheries

Four posts from Fish Radio

Crew of Alaska Juris abandoned their sinking ship on a mild summer day: Coast Guard hearings begin

Coast Guard medevacs commercial fisherman 60 miles southeast of Martha’s Vineyard with stroke like symptoms

Westerly Town Council seeks input on marina property – Fishermen weigh in.

NOAA Announces 2020 At-Sea Monitoring Coverage Levels for Groundfish Sector Fishery

Council to consider directed Pacific cod fishery in the Aleutians – Community Quota Entities given additional purchase opportunities

The Long Blue Line: The “Gold Dust Twins” and the battle of Guadalcanal (Part 1)

Norway and Russia agree to slash cod, haddock quotas in Barents Sea, suspend capelin catch

PETA seeks to honor their brother and sister lobsters, with a stone

Maryland, Virginia Members Disagree on Atlantic Oil Drilling

Greenland killer whale butchering in photo posted on Facebook

Delay, Delay, Delay. No Dec. 7 start to LFA 34 commercial lobster season off southwestern N.S.

Bering Sea king bycatch, co-op reports and Gulf of Alaska tendering to come back before North Pacific Council

Fishing on an ocean ‘antiquity’

Fish board seat back up for grabs – Appointment is expected to go to a Bristol Bay resident

National Hurricane Center – Hurricane Jose Public Advisory

Don Cuddy – Fishermen fight back against government overreach

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