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Vessel Incidental Discharge Act awaits action – If you wash your deck or pump a bildge, it affects you.

September 13, 2014 National

Commercial fishermen like Bradley Styron, owner and operator of Quality Seafood of Cedar Island, wash their decks and pump out their bilge water on a regular basis during their everyday operations. But if a bill currently before the Senate doesn’t get passed, they might have to meet tougher environmental regulations to do so. Read the rest here 17:46

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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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Vessel Incidental Discharge Act awaits action – If you wash your deck or pump a bildge, it affects you.

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

Time for BP to get out of the oil business! – Coast Guard, EPA respond to oil discharge in Lake Michigan from BP Whiting Refinery

Coast Guard Sector Columbia River save a total catch of 35 tons of shrimp from spoiling Wednesday. thaaank you!

Fish and Game announces Pacific cod openings

A Stern Look At Seafood Scare Stories

Bluenose II back in water after 3-year more than $16-million refit

Gulf of Maine lobsters are experiencing a housing crisis

Jerry Anderson might not be Native American like the first reefnetters, but that doesn’t mean the ancient fishing practice doesn’t run in his blood.

Fluke Cut Rally scheduled for Friday, 10 am at Fishermen’s Supply in Point Pleasant Beach

Fishing chiefs urge ministers to work with industry, not against it

LIPA trustees won’t vote on wind farm project this week

Women in the fishing industry highlighted in Portholes Project

Groundfish operations change focus for New Bedford seafood company

DFO puts B.C.’s prized spot prawn fishery in peril again

Southern California crab fishermen given all-clear in toxin scare

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Salvage tug Resolve Pioneer to assist in effort to refloat F/V Lone Star

Commercial fishermen create new peak body to fight fisheries reform in New South Wales

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Marvin Moy, NYC doctor charged by feds, vanishes after alleged LI boat accident

Herring in Missouri? Hell Ya! Angler ties state record with 3-pound fish

Too Few Tuna! Commercial season off to standard slow start

Naknek-Kvichak fishermen eagerly await the 16 million sockeye run to show

Slavery at sea has Thailand teetering toward US sanctions

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