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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

‘Perfectly reasonable’ to drill for oil in area closed to fishery, Liberal MP says

Fishing captain charged with repeatedly assaulting a crew member and threatening to kill him

Newfoundland hunger strike Fisherman Richard Gillett speaks with federal fisheries minister

Maine Is Drowning in Lobsters – The market is booming, but it’s not making anybody rich

Fishing resumes in 138 square miles of oil fouled waters off the Santa Barbara coast

NOAA scientist: Offshore wind projects will likely affect viability of fishery surveys

Fisherman David Goethel takes case to US Supreme Court

Fake News, Incomplete/Inaccurate Reporting, Intentional Misdirection and Fishing

Recreational Cod study aims to help fish crisis

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Coast Guard completes 5-hr tow of fishing vessel offshore Yachats, Ore.

Mass. Division of Marine Fisheries Officials urge changes needed on striper limits

Blowin’ 20 -30, Rough Sea’s in the Bay Area leaves Dungeness Fleet tied to the dock

Hull tipped over for fishing boat build

EU to demand continued fishing rights in British waters

East Coast fishermen spar with federal government over cost of at-sea monitors

Georges Bank haddock – Canada, U.S. agree to slash quota by 45%

The Blessing of the Fleet mixes celebration, anticipation, nostalgia, along Bayou Little Caillou

Vard to Build New Stern Trawler for Havbryn

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Bristol Bay sockeye harvest breaking records as other districts suffer

Fisheries Acoustic Survey Newfoundland-Blog No 9-of Cod and Second Chances

200 tons of illegally caught Atlantic bluefin tuna show how we’re driving these fish to extinction

Lesion-Causing Disease in Chesapeake Bay Bait Fish Alarms Watermen

UPDATE: Tropical Storm Debby to Bring Major Flooding to Southeast After Florida Landfall

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