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President Donald J. Trump Executive Order Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth

May 7, 2020 Gulf of Mexico, International News, Mid Atlantic, New England, North Pacific, Pacific, South Atlantic, Western Pacific

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to strengthen the American economy; improve the competitiveness of American industry; ensure food security; provide environmentally safe and sustainable seafood; support American workers; ensure coordinated, predictable, and transparent Federal actions; and remove unnecessary regulatory burdens, it is hereby ordered as follows: DONALD J. TRUMP, THE WHITE HOUSE, May 7, 2020. >click to read<

President Donald J. Trump Is Working to Secure America’s Seafood Supply Chain and Bring Jobs Home – >click to read< 17:54

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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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President Donald J. Trump Executive Order Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth

Ocean Resource Privatization

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

Rep. Patrick Kearney sponsoring three bills for Massachusetts’ fishing industry

Coast Guard towed a fishing boat on Monday after it caught fire 75 miles east of Manasquan.

Grand Manan Fisherman’s Association welcomes $4.9 million to expand the Fundy Marine Service Centre

Electronic Monitoring of the Lobster fishery, Tracking of the Red Shrimp fishery to be imposed

McDonald announces candidacy for House District 134 – Commercial fishing issues ‘significant part’ of platform

British fishing industry left unhappy by ‘difficult’ 50% cut to North Sea cod quota

rescueME Introduced to Commercial Market – the world’s smallest personal locator beacon

PEI Lobster glut leads to quotas amid low prices – Prices remain low as boats return to the water

Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard: Calamari: Still No. 1 after all these years

Divers to refloat boat destroyed in fire, 65 feet of wharf lost to the flames

Chesapeake crab count up, but fewer watermen catching them

Some Say Kuskokwim Commercial Fishing Opening Unfair

House committee blasts Endangered Species Act peer review process

NL research shows LED lights draw crab to the pot

Can Hag Fish gloop be useful to humans?

Alabama: Gulf Coast Shrimp Season Opens June 1st

Trying to save an old boat, and avoid eviction – Skugaid skipper determined to stay

Commercial fishermen protest proposal as they anchor boats, pack public hearing

Fluke Fight. New Jersey fights New York’s efforts to take summer flounder

American “celebrity” chefs signing up to boycott Canadian seafood because of the seal hunt are clearly misinformed

It’s On!! The Make Commercial Fishing Great Again Flotilla 2017

NEFMC Requests Emergency Action for Gulf of Maine Haddock to Prevent Significant Fishery Impacts

She’s A Mom. What’s Your Superpower? An Interview with Representative Genevieve McDonald

Coast Guard assists after F/V Aquarius sinks near Florence, Ore. with loss of life

Major salmon escape at a Cooke aquaculture site in Hermitage Bay – The Fisheries Broadcast with Jamie Baker

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