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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for September 29, 2017
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Anti-wind farm petition hits 500,000 signatures
An online petition drive in opposition to offshore wind farms following the deaths of dozens of whales along the East Coast has now hit a milestone Read More » -
Gulf Coast Governors Call on Congress to Give Management Control to States for Red Snapper Fishery
fosterfollynews.com – The letter to U.S. House and Senate leadership, signed by the governors’ states, “With a stock that is recovering steadily, our recreational anglers are Read More » -
Fisheries and Oceans Canada doing a poor job of monitoring fishing industry: report
A new report slams the federal Fisheries Department for failing to properly monitor Canada’s commercial fishing industry. The report from the federal environment commissioner, Jerry DeMarco, Read More » -
FISH-NL presents certification application to Labour Relations Board
The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH NL) presented an application this morning to the Labour Relations Board requesting that the organization Read More » -
The quest to save South Mississippi’s oysters – Fishermen begin oyster relay under DMR program
The quest to save South Mississippi’s oysters continued Monday. Coast fishermen were out on the Mississippi Sound all morning working to relocate oysters. The fishermen were Read More » -
Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 70′ Steel Shrimper, Cat 3408,
To review specifications, information, and 26 photos’, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here< 11:59 Read More » -
Benefit to support Orr’s Island lobsterman
Orr’s Island lobsterman Mark Wilson suffered a stroke recently while at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He received immediate care but remains hospitalized at Mass General. Read More » -
German Energy Policy Lost: ‘Energiewende Has Failed,’ Says Leading Enviro
In an opinion piece at the Mittel Bayerische daily, Harry Neumann, National Chairman of the environmental group Naturschutzinitiative e.V. declares Germany’s Energiewende (transition to renewable energies) Read More » -
Brexit has left us all at sea – even the fishing industry
Teething troubles? Bumps in the road? Pull the other one, Mr Gove. As the daily news from fishing crews, farmers, road hauliers, wine merchants, musicians and Read More » -
“Fire in the Water” – Book about history of commercial fishing in Florida published
Through firsthand accounts, “Fire in the Water” chronicles an exciting and unique slice of early Florida coastal history that might have otherwise been lost. It was Read More » -
Species At Risk? Eel decline in Quebec and Ontario could end industry in Maritimes
An effort to protect eels in Ontario and Quebec is threatening to shut down the little known but lucrative eel fishery in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Read More » -
Wind Power: Broken Blades and (Maybe) Green Gouging
Say what you will about wind turbines, the steampunk wing of our glorious renewable future, their most dramatic failures have an epic quality about them — Read More » -
Army Corps releases Pebble Mine draft EIS hearing schedule
The Army Corps of Engineers published the draft EIS last week, sparking comment from both Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Sen. Dan Sullivan. Murkowski said she has Read More » -
ASMI All-Hands Meeting Information
UFA members and friends, UFA is headed to Sitka for our semi-annual Board meeting which runs from October 23rd to 25th at Centennial Hall (http://www.ufa-fish.org/ ). For those Read More » -
Mississippi Shrimp season gets underway with more than 250 boats lowering nets
Over 250 shrimp boats scoured the Mississippi Sound early Wednesday morning as the 2018 shrimp season officially got underway. Mississippi Department of Marine Resources officials conducted Read More » -
High-tech Northern Leader leaves Tacoma shipyard for Alaskan waters
The Northern Leader, the largest commercial fishing boat built in the Northwest in the last two decades, left its moorings at J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Co. on Sunday Read More » -
Fishermen Oppose, but New York Bureaucrats are determined to build a wind farm off the coast of Long Island
New York State is mounting a broad effort to reduce the cost of building a wind farm off the coast of Long Island, an ambitious push Read More » -
‘Nothing will be safe’: Fears after 20,000 ‘ravenous’ fish escape fish farm in Australia
There are fears thousands of “ravenous” kingfish that escaped a government jointly run fish farm in Australia will devastate a marine park’s wild fish population. Up Read More » -
Light shows to honor Gloucester fishermen’s wives
Twenty years ago on the morning of Aug. 5, Angela Sanfilippo, president of the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association, was attending to the final details of the Read More » -
Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting November 12-19, 2014, Costa Mesa, California – Listen Live!
The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its advisory bodies will meet November 12-19, 2014 in Costa Mesa, California to address issues related to coastal pelagic Read More » -
And they’re off! The 2024-25 lobster season in southwestern Nova Scotia opens with Dumping Day
Following a one-day weather delay, the six-month commercial lobster fishery in southwestern Nova Scotia and along the province’s south shore opened on the morning of Nov. Read More » -
Increasing Imports = Vanishing nets: Area shrimpers sail on despite rising costs
No one would have predicted the demise of the Lowcountry’s most iconic industry just a few decades ago. Back then, the Gay’s dock would fill up Read More » -
Alewives show strong start to season
Jim Wotton and his crew of 10 prepare the day of fishing by ziplining hundreds of crates from the cliffside onto the jagged rocks below the Read More » -
The “Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment” Discussed During Congressional Oversight Hearing – audio
Many of the recent policy and enforcement efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency came under fire Thursday during an oversight hearing in the U.S. House of Read More »
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