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State of Massachusetts Pulls the Plug on Joe’s Lobster Mart

October 4, 2014 New England

Joseph Vaudo, the owner of Joe’s Lobster Mart in Sandwich, must “immediately cease and desist all wholesale and retail seafood operations, including all interstate shipment of shellfish,” according to the Department of Public Health’s decision. Read the rest here 10:02

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Joe’s Lobster Mart – Fish dealer fights for livelihood

September 5, 2014 New England

The decision is likely to come within days and was prompted by owner Joseph Vaudo’s guilty plea in March that he received stolen oysters at his retail and wholesale fish market on the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich. On Oct. 26, 2013, police had his market under surveillance during a transaction with Michael Bryant, who police suspected of stealing oysters from Bryant has since pleaded guilty to a string of oyster thefts. Read the rest here 06:45

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Joe’s Lobster Mart owner fights state over seafood license

May 2, 2014 New England

The health department action came after Vaudo, 63, pleaded guilty in March to receiving stolen property, willfully misleading police during an investigation and failure or refusal to file required statistical reports of wholesale and retail dealers. He was ordered to pay $6,250 in fines and court costs. The charges against Vaudo stemmed from an investigation into a string of thefts from oyster beds last summer in Barnstable and Dennis. Read more here 09:12

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Massachusetts Department of Public Health aims to shut down Joe’s Lobster Mart

April 18, 2014 New England

In the wake of last month’s guilty plea by Joseph Vaudo to selling stolen oysters in his fish market, the state Department of Public Health now seeks to revoke his license to sell and distribute seafood, a spokesman for the agency said Thursday. Read more here capecodonline.com 07:18

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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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