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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council – The August 2014 Council Meeting Report is now available

August 21, 2014 Mid Atlantic

Issues Addressed: Deep Sea Coral Amendment – Research Set-Aside – Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Specifications – Bluefish Specifications – Comprehensive Summer Flounder Amendment – Black Sea Bass Wave 1/May 1 Framework – Special Management Zones – Omnibus Amendment to Simplify Vessel Baselines – Listening Session: NOAA Fisheries’ Fishery-Dependent Data Visioning Project Read more here 14:35

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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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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

Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission to discuss Columbia River reforms on Friday

South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Approves Increases for Black Sea Bass Annual Catch Limits

The Eel World: Inside Maine’s Wild Elver Turf War

Toxic fumes from decaying fish contributed to the deaths of two fishermen

DMR extends search for shrimp boat for 2018 Northern Shrimp Cooperative Winter Sampling program

No more shrimp from Pamlico Sound?- North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission to Consider Trawl Ban – Petition

Coronavirus: Observer plans modified for commercial crab season

Sipekne’katik seek injunction from Nova Scotia Supreme Court to end threats, interference in lobster fishery

Dolphin deaths spreading to SC

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Hawaii fishermen say development is hurting reefs

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“Fire in the Water” – Book about history of commercial fishing in Florida published

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