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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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  • Police seize 3,000 pounds of illegal haddock from New Bedford seafood plant

    Massachusetts Environmental Police seized more than 3,000 pounds of illegally harvested haddock from a New Bedford processing plant on Thursday in the first commercial scale bust Read More »
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    Monterey fish pump being torn down at commercial wharf

    An industrial symbol of the heyday of commercial fishing in Monterey is being torn down this coming week after a conflict with the city resulted in Read More »

  • Puget Sound Crab Harvest – What goes down will come back up…

    By Michael A. Moore – Puget Sound Dungeness crab harvests have been at record levels for the last four seasons, fluctuating between 8 and 11 million pounds Read More »
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    Maine Granted Intervenor Status in Lawsuit Challenging Federal Regulations

    Governor Janet Mills announced today that the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) has been granted intervenor status in Maine Lobstermen’s Association v National Marine Fisheries Service, Read More »

  • Management challenge: ‘fish wars’ escalate as king productivity ebbs

    This is the seventh in the Morris Communications series, “The case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.” Previous stories may be found at www.peninsulaclarion.com. It’s a Read More »

  • Politics-Minded Enviro Group sets its gun sights on Congressman Steve Southerland, its “Ocean Enemy #1”

    Southerland has been an avid Catch Share opponent. The organization, led by the marine biologist David Wilmot, is different than many other conservation groups in that Read More »

  • The Gulf of Maine: Poster Child for Global Weirding?

    Since it’s snowing this evening, again, I though I’d write something on climate, which I know is not weather. As so often, the great state of Read More »

  • Maine lobstermen seek relief from 1950s federal restriction

    The Maine Lobstermen’s Association hopes this will be the year it gets relief from a 56-year-old federal restriction that limits what the trade group can say Read More »

  • Being ignored at the Council or being publicly called an “asshole” by the Council Chairman doesn’t often make the news

    Catch Shares Take Toll Council Called To Task – At the April New England Fishery Management Council meeting in Mystic, Conn., a dozen university students from Read More »

  • 20 years after gill net ban, poaching persists along west coast

    It was just after midnight Monday when two commercial fisherman saw the blue lights of law enforcement and made a break for it near the mouth Read More »

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  • New Bedford launches seafood branding campaign and website

    For generations New Bedford fishermen withstood the elements to do their jobs. Through rain storms they fished. In choppy waters they fished. Against harsh winds they Read More »

  • Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signs territorial waters bill

    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a bill that extends Mississippi’s territorial waters by about seven miles. Mississippi and Louisiana waters now extend Read More »

  • Coast Guard puts off Oregon S+R base closing; Charleston SC still a question

    The U.S. Coast Guard might be close to budging on plans to remove a search and rescue helicopter and shutter a base on the Stono River. Read More »

  • Bering Fisheries Experiments With Shipping Live Crab – Audio

    Unalaska Community Broadcasting – It pays not to kill crab. Or at least that’s what Unalaska’s smallest fish processor is banking on for a new business Read More »
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    Gloucester fisherman get shout-out at Gotham Awards

    Gloucester and one of its fishermen received a shout-out at the 31st Gotham Awards, the annual New York independent film celebration that serves as a boozy Read More »

  • California’s ocean salmon fishing season closed for second year in a row

    California’s commercial and recreational ocean salmon fishing season is set to be closed for the second consecutive year, another blow to the state’s beleaguered industry suffering Read More »

  • Fish Wars Heat Up – Scott Christiansen, Anchorage Press Lay’s it All Out

    There’s an established fishery war on the Kenai Peninsula that heated up in recent weeks on two battlefronts: politics and news media. The feud is yet Read More »

  • Arctic mystery fish caught recently in Nunavut waters identified

    Nigel Hussey, a researcher who works with the Ocean Tracking Network, says the fish some speculated was a goblin shark is actually the mysterious “long-nosed chimaera” — mysterious because they’re rarely Read More »
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    Fishing Rights: Irish fishing group will fight ‘tooth and nail’ against UK quota move

    The head of an Irish fishing group has said they will fight “tooth and nail” a move by the UK government to double the catch quota Read More »
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    Jaws of life (Release the Kracken!)

    “Conserving our planet one fish at a time.” You do a double-take when you see the sign. Because Randy Hupp’s a commercial fisherman. But he is Read More »
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    Captain Kenny Charles “Ken” Martin May 2, 1949 – June 17, 2022 of Bella Bella

    To a lot of people, Ken was a fisherman, lovingly known as “The Captain.” But to others, he was Ken, the father, the husband, the friend. Read More »

  • Math teacher spends summers salmon fishing in Alaska’s Bristol Bay

    But after nine long months in the classroom trying to reach sometimes apathetic students, he is ready to go back his roots — commercial salmon fishing. Read More »
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    Truck Beach Trespassing Cases May Head Out of Town

    Attorneys for oceanfront property owners along what is popularly known as Truck Beach on Napeague have convinced a New York State Supreme Court judge to move Read More »

  • On the Job: Coastal Bait Co. in Portland

    The company moves approximately 400 barrels of bait a day, six days a week, for lobstermen along the Maine coast. Coastal Bait Co. employee Ralph Kent Read More »

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