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‘We need it desperately’: Great Lakes Commercial Fishermen look for help as industry shrinks

June 13, 2024 Featured, Inland Fisheries, National

Commercial fishing on the Great Lakes began 150 years ago, and fishermen once numbered in the thousands. Now, only a handful of businesses are still at it, and many are aging out and looking for help. Jamie LeClair represents the fifth generation involved in her family-run commercial fishing business. Titus Seilheimer, a fisheries specialist for the Wisconsin Sea Grant, said the industry needs to start training the next generation of commercial fishermen. “There are concerns. A lot of folks I work with are getting older, and the fleet is getting grayer,” said Seilheimer. “That’s an issue here in the Great Lakes, but really any fishery.” Video, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 12:57

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Commercial fishing business/vessel owner Jewell Thomas “Tom” English III of Oak Island, Texas, has passed away

May 1, 2023 Gulf of Mexico

Jewell Thomas “Tom” English III, 75, of Oak Island, Texas, passed away peacefully, on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at his home, with his loving family by his side. He was born on May 12, 1947, in Oceanside, California, to the late Margaret Emily Powers and Jewell Thomas English, Jr. He enlisted in the United States Navy and proudly served his country during the Vietnam Era. Tom was the owner and operator of a commercial fishing business and the fishing vessel F/V M&M (“you know where it melts”) for many years. He also received his captain’s license as a tugboat driver and for pushing barges. >click to read< 09:47

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Gregory Mayhew has passed away

April 16, 2018 New England

Gregory Mayhew, 72, died peacefully at his home in West Tisbury on Wednesday evening, April 11, enveloped by the love of his family. Greg battled chronic illness for many years, although this was rarely apparent, due to his ready smile and upbeat nature. Gregory was born Sept. 19, 1945, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. He was the third of Benjamin C. Mayhew Jr. and Eileen (Sullivan) Mayhew’s five children.,, Fishing was in Greg’s blood from birth, and was a family affair. >click to read<16:30

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Fishing Vessel Nite Owl was from Golden Meadow

April 24, 2013 Gulf of Mexico

HoumaToday – As he mourns the loss of a close friend claimed by the Gulf of Mexico, Golden Meadow fisherman Larry Moore said he won’t return to the commercial fishing business. Moore owned the Nite Owl, a fishing boat that sank Friday in the Gulf. Four of its five crew members are presumed dead. “To all the families of the guys that are gone, if I could trade places with any one of them, I would,” Moore said. continued

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Fort Pierce commercial fishing business concerned city giving competition an unfair advantage

January 19, 2013 South Atlantic

FORT PIERCE — A commercial fishing business owner says the city shouldn’t use public resources for a private enterprise that would benefit a few and give his competition an unfair advantage, especially when he’s working on a similar project. Day Boat’s project includes replacing the current docks with 50 new boat slips, building a new seawall, adding new utilities, expanding the processing and refrigeration facility, creating a new fueling system for commercial boats and the public, and reconstructing the existing buildings. Read more

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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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