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BOEM Report Key to Offshore Wind’s Future

January 13, 2020 Mid Atlantic, New England

The forthcoming report from the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on the cumulative environmental impacts of the Vineyard Wind project will determine the future of offshore wind development. BOEM’s decision isn’t just the remaining hurdle for the 800-megawatt project, but also the gateway for 6 gigawatts of offshore wind facilities planned between the Gulf of Maine and Virginia. >click to read< 15:48

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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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BOEM Report Key to Offshore Wind’s Future

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

To the Bering Sea and back. Deadliest Catch Captain Derrick Ray shares a behind-the-scenes look at the popular TV show

Acadie-Bathurst MP Serge Cormier says he can no longer defend his government on right whale protection issue

Here is another nail in our Commercial Fishing coffin. Offshore wind farms.

Gloucester Fisherman Nicolo Vitale, ‘He was the type of guy who would do anything for you’

Fish bucks flow far beyond AK; dock prices over a decade – This is Fish Radio.

Fishermen Convicted of Improperly Harvesting Seals

Alaska Salmon Alliance seeks solutions in fisheries debate By Paul Dale

Man dies after falling overboard in Narragansett

Does Biden have an ocean policy? – Climate change and ocean industrialization!

In the Guest Writer Column – Professor Bill Allen PhD.

Pacific Coast crabs are suffocating

U.S. Sen. Kennedy calls for permanent safety net for fishing industry

New Crab Study in Southeast Alaska – Fishermen’s News

Cod stock reassessment prompts calls from producers to end moratorium

Navy’s power cable plans for Cutler station concern Maine scallop fishermen

On the Puget Sound, the Women Whose Lives and Work Revolve Around Salmon

Coast Guard medevacs fisherman near Port O’Connor, Texas

Seafood industry chief slams WWF ‘treachery’

Maine elver season gets slower start, but values still above average

Woman gets jail for embezzling about $500,000 from seafood plant

New charges in Lower Keys spiny lobster case – All are accused of violating the Lacey Act

Coast Guard suspends search for two missing fishermen in Pamlico Sound

The province says an N.L. fish plant was trying to sell rotten crab. The fish plant is snapping back

John Sackton: Are the big NGOs winning the marine monument battle, but losing the war?

Biloxi 2021 Blessing of the Fleet and Shrimp Festival is ‘a sign of hopefulness’

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