Brexit process – fisherynation.com

Tag Archives: Brexit process

EU demands access to UK waters. Give Brussels fishing rights for 25 years? Codswallop!

February 3, 2020 International News

EU negotiator Michel Barnier underscored the difficulties of the trade negotiations with Britain ahead for the rest of the year when he highlighted the small but emblematic fisheries industry, which was a key issue in the protracted Brexit process in the United Kingdom too. Barnier told France Inter radio that “there will be no trade deal with the British if there is no reciprocal access deal for our fishermen.” >click to read< Give Brussels fishing rights for 25 years? Codswallop! Britain to reject EU demands for deal that would allow foreign trawlers access to our waters until 2045 – >click to read< 07:37

Comment

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
December 2024

M T W T F S S

1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30 31

« Nov

December 2024
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
	1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

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

Recent Posts
- Lobster marketing wars? Canada launches effort to develop unique Canadian lobster brand
  
  When someone orders lobster at a restaurant in New York City, chances are the menu touts it as “Maine” lobster. Ask someone on the streets of Read More »
- TUNA SHOWDOWN: Pacific tuna stock faces growing crisis of inaction
  
  A showdown that could decide the sustainability of the US$7 billion Pacific tuna industry is expected at the annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Read More »
- British Columbia’s Canfisco workers seek Ottawa’s help to save jobs
  
  As B.C.’s commercial fishing season gets under way, the union representing workers at B.C.’s last fish cannery has made a public plea to the federal government Read More »
- Evolving Business: Bristol Bay salmon fishery dealing with latest challenge, Coronavirus.
  
  Wild salmon return from the ocean to restart a life cycle that has persisted for millions of years. Wild Alaska sockeye (a favorite species of salmon) is Read More »
- Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting in Raleigh, NC February 13 thru 15, 2018
  
  The public is invited to attend the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s meeting in Raleigh, NC at the Hilton Garden Inn Raleigh/Crabtree Valley 3912 Arrow DriveRaleigh, NC, Read More »
- Pew response fails to address EU fishing sector concerns over misleading information
  
  It is disappointing that your response fails to address the issues that we have raised. We drew attention to the startling divergence between the (ICES) view Read More »
- Trident Seafoods marks 50th anniversary
  
  A major seafood processing company that began with a single vessel operating out of Kodiak in 1973 marked its 50th anniversary on Jan. 31, celebrating all Read More »
- Coast Guard investigating death on fishing boat
  
  The US Coast Guard is investigating the death of a 61-year-old man linked to an injury onboard a fishing boat in the Gulf of Mexico, and Read More »
- Winter Blue Crab season starts
  
  Fresh blue claw crab is available for retail purchase at the Belford Seafood Cooperative in Middletown. The commercial dredge season for blue claw crab started Thursday and the first Read More »
- Fisherynation.com Editorial: The Great Atlantic Sturgeon Debacle
  
  This Sturgeon debacle should serve as a pretty clear indication of how our fisheries “management” system works, or more to the point, how it doesn’t work. Read More »
- Weather Delay: Spring lobster seasons in parts of three Maritimes provinces to open on Tuesday.
  
  The decision came after the Lobster Advisory Committee met with DFO Sunday morning. The seasons for LFA 23 in northeastern New Brunswick, LFA 24 in northern Read More »
- Any Wooden Boat Nuts Near Chesterton, MD Nov. 4th Will Want to Attend This Event with Mike Vlahovich
  
  Mike Vlahovich, the founder and former director of the Coastal Heritage Alliance, will share his lifelong appreciation for wooden boats and the watermen’s culture when he Read More »
- An optimistic outlook for fall lobster fishery in LFA 25
  
  The president of the P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association thinks the way the spring lobster fishery finished off bodes well for the fall fishery which is due to Read More »
- Legal’s Berkowitz backs lobstermen in battle against Calif. aquarium
  
  Roger Berkowitz, the previous president and CEO of the regional seafood restaurant chain, is supporting the Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association during its months-long dispute with groups that Read More »
- Stop pointing the finger at fishing, point it at polluting industries
  
  Sandy muddy bottoms peak August and October in Georgia In the marshes, estuaries and winter beaches, you can go as far as a mile or two Read More »
- DFO undertaking major hiring wave for enforcement officers
  
  The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is looking to hire more enforcement officers in departments all across Canada. In a hiring notice posted on Friday DFO Read More »
- Maine lobster boat races touch down in Bass Harbor on June 23
  
  Get ready for the roar of high-powered diesel and high-octane gasoline engines as the annual Maine Lobster Boat Races kick off in Hancock County on June Read More »
- Ex-Head of Maine Union Co-op Named in Racketeering Suit
  
  The annual Maine lobster catch might not be in trouble, but certain people who sell it are. On December 5, Lobster 207, a wholesale marketing cooperative Read More »
- Legal issues holding up fish-farming complaint to environmental commission
  
  VANCOUVER – An effort by environmentalists, a First Nation and commercial fishermen to use a NAFTA side agreement to force Canada to change the way it Read More »
- NOAA Fisheries to close white hake fishery for Groundfish Common Pool on December 5, 2012
  
  NOAA announces, based on available data, that 90 percent of the available Trimester 2 white hake quota has been harvested. Effective 0001 hours December 5, the Read More »
- U.S. Seafoods apologizes to Unalaska following coronavirus exposure at the Norwegian Rat Saloon
  
  A Seattle seafood company has issued an apology to Unalaska after crewmembers from one of its vessels at port in the island community breached isolation protocols Read More »
- Letter: Dear BOEM
  
  Your project of installing a wind power farm off the coast of Southern Oregon is in total disregard for the environment, economics, and people therein. The vibrations Read More »
- Potent drugs found in West Coast sewage threaten chinook, study reveals
  
  A Seattle expert in environmental contaminants who has linked sewage flushes into Washington state estuaries to higher juvenile chinook salmon death rates suspects human drugs found Read More »
- Lobstermen Question State Whale Plan at Waldoboro Meeting
  
  Lobstermen expressed a mix of frustration and acceptance upon hearing the state’s new plan to protect North American right whales during a meeting in Waldoboro on Read More »
- Filmmaker John Hopkins says Bluefin tuna becoming ‘just like pets’!
  
  A new documentary on the Atlantic bluefin tuna says the giant fish are exhibiting unusual behaviour after they migrate into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where Read More »