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NOAA, BOEM, Fishing Industry Sign New Memorandum of Understanding

March 26, 2019 Mid Atlantic, New England

NOAA Fisheries, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA) signed a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding that brings local and regional fishing interests together with federal regulators to collaborate on the science and process of offshore wind energy development on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf. >click to read<12:52

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The good and bad of seismic testing. (the good?)

March 31, 2014 Mid Atlantic, Offshore Wind/Industrialization

The controversy over seismic testing has come to the Cape Fear region, with Kure Beach’s mayor writing a letter in support and the Carolina Beach Town Council voting recently to oppose it. Read more here 12:18

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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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NOAA, BOEM, Fishing Industry Sign New Memorandum of Understanding

The good and bad of seismic testing. (the good?)

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

In New Jersey! Support The Local Fishing Industry With Seafood Made Simple

Foreign bids on Icicle higher than US suitors expected, players up against American Fisheries Act

Are you as sick of Red Snapper Crap in the Reauthorization as I am?

Rural America Keeps Rejecting Big Wind

Coast Guard Cutter Albacore assists disabled fishing vessel off Monomoy

Wicked Tuna’s Tyler McLaughlin

U.S. House Makes Strong Statement Against Marine Monument

This tragedy was unimaginable for us, like it is for all fishing families’ — Alisha Marques, sister of lost New Bedford fisherman Mark P. Cormier Jr.

New use for A.I.: correctly estimating fish stocks

Kentucky – Local government leaders and business owners say ‘War on Carp’ is working

Changes in lobster processing rules on Massachusetts Legislature’s plate

This is not good, friends. Not good at all. Parasites in Yellowtail Flounder Could be Preventing Population Rebound

PRAY! The drought’s hidden victim: California’s native fish

WATCH: Norwegian fishermen rescued after boat capsizes in icy waters

Fishers to be remembered at services in north and north-east

Arraignment set for man accused of landing 183 illegal lobsters

Senate subcommittee releases new draft of fisheries act

Cape Sharp Turbine blamed for fish gouges in the Minas Basin

Poor Striper Spawn Reported in Chesapeake

Brexit Britain takes ‘full advantage’ of EU exit to deliver yet another major fishing win

MSA REAUTHORIZATION NATIONAL WORKSHOPS: SEATTLE KICKOFF GREAT SUCCESS

David Rainer: Plash has ‘Gotta Go’ shrimping despite low prices

Three brothers who live in the Lower Keys, buyer charged in spiny lobsters take case

Prince William Sound pinks find their way into Cook Inlet commercial harvest

Captain Sig Hansen on riding out the Coronavirus pandemic on the Bering Sea – What a Time to be Alive.

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