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Hearing November 19th! State of the 2019-20 Dungeness Crab Season and Putting Fish Friendly Highways in the Fast Lane

November 17, 2019 Pacific

Senator Mike McGuire, Chair of the. Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (JCFA), and Assemblymember Mark Stone, Vice Chair, are hosting an important hearing next week on two critical topics: the upcoming Dungeness crab season and how fish passage barriers on our state highways are impacting species recovery. The hearing, titled: State of the 2019-20 Dungeness Crab Season and Putting Fish Friendly Highways in the Fast Lane will be held this coming. Tuesday, November 19 from 9 a.m. to noon at the State Capitol in Room 112. >click to read< 14:18

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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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Hearing November 19th! State of the 2019-20 Dungeness Crab Season and Putting Fish Friendly Highways in the Fast Lane

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

Then there’s this Eco nut post on Talking Fish

BC Becoming a ‘Poacher’s Paradise’

Seward Fishing Community dismayed by FDA precident approving genetically modified fish

Exit of Fisheries chief Louis Daniel III remains unexplained and unannounced

Take shrimper’s concerns seriously

Fishing deals said to have netted £393 million for Scots’ fleet

Port of Newport re-assessing access to new International Terminal

Three Louisiana men cited for commercial shark-fishing violations

Nfld. & Labrador to research live seafood cold storage at Gander International, Port aux Basques for International Export

Summer flounder’s new status from “viable” to “concern”reduces allowable catch

Fishing With A Glock 9mm Handgun Underwater? These Lionfish Don’t Stand A Goddamn Chance

Dumping Day Delay: moved to Tuesday due to weather

Hurricane Ida: Local trawler pushing forward, despite changes in the industry

Saving Seafood Responds to Eco Ocean Story, “Saving Seafood Offers Red Herring for Groundfish”

The Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative – $647M to protect Pacific salmon

ODFW to host public meetings on commercial nearshore fishery

The Canadian Cod Crisis: “There’s millions of cod. The cod is back, and it’s killing the crab and shrimp species,”

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Great Lakes research vessel Muskie docks at Canalside for two-day visit

Cook Inlet fishermen sue over set-net closures

‘Wicked Tuna’ Star Captain Delivers Beatdown … Gets Arrested

Dead mullet troubles in Anna Maria Island

Atlantic herring suffering in warming Gulf of St. Lawrence

Fisheries trust helps local clammers

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