distribution ring – fisherynation.com

Tag Archives: distribution ring

Fisherman facing life in prison after finding 20 kilo’s of cocaine at sea, setting up a distribution ring

January 26, 2017 Gulf of Mexico

The question is often light-heartedly posited among friends in coastal towns of what one would do if he were to discover a bail of washed-up narcotics. Local fisherman Thomas Zachary Breeding, 32, chose to distribute for sale the 20 kilograms of cocaine he found – and he advises you not do the same. “This changed my life and way of thinking and also made me aware of some of the dangers that can be found off shore in the Gulf,” Breeding wrote recently in a letter to The News Herald from the Washington County Jail, where he is being held to await his sentence for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. “I would like to let the public know the dangers and what not to do if this situation comes about.” Breeding was one of five individuals arrested in summer 2016 on charges of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. The group was indicted by a federal grand jury in September after Breeding found 20 kilograms of cocaine – the equivalent of about 45 pounds – while out at sea and set up a distribution network with the other people. Read the story here Another article, click here 16:16

Comment

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
December 2024

M T W T F S S

1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30 31

« Nov

December 2024
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
	1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

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

Recent Posts
- The Upper Cook Inlet Board of Fisheries meeting starts this Friday.
  
  Alaska Board of Fisheries to Meet in Anchorage, January 31–February 13, 2014 on Upper Cook Inlet Finfish information here 17:42 Read More »
- Maine fishing bill seeks access for big boats – aims to expand Maine’s groundfishing quota while easing limits on larger vessels.
  
  AUGUSTA – A state-run permitting program that helps Maine’s long-ailing groundfishing industry should be open to boats of all sizes, supporters of a bill to expand Read More »
- At least 27 dead and nine missing after fishing vessel capsizes off the coast of Honduras as authorities scramble to rescue more
  
  At least 27 fishermen drowned and another nine are still missing after a vessel capsized on Wednesday during bad weather off the northern coast of Honduras. Read More »
- No Booze, No Drugs – ‘Deadliest Catch’ star Sig Hansen avoids jail, gets probation for assaulting Uber driver
  
  Celebrity fishing-boat captain Sig Hansen was given a deferred sentence, ordered to undergo alcohol treatment and put on a year of probation Thursday for assaulting an Read More »
- North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for June 26, 2015
  
  Click to read the To read all the updates, click here 18:36:45 Read More »
- With bill’s passage, lobster industry welcomes 6-year break from new regulations
  
  Hours before a stopgap spending measure was set to expire, Congress voted to pass the $1.7 trillion omnibus package to fund the government through September 2023. Read More »
- Next Labour Relations Board hearing on fight between FFAW and FISH-NL set for Thursday
  
  The Labour Relations Board has another hearing scheduled this week in the ongoing battle to represent inshore fish harvesters in the province. Last week, the board Read More »
- Ropeless traps could help mitigate right whale deaths, says U.S. scientist
  
  A U.S. scientist is working on trying to stop right whale entanglements with fishing gear, which garnered increased attention after a spate of deaths this past Read More »
- $2M to give more ocean information to fishers, scientists. ‘It will make a difference.’
  
  A $2 million dollar grant aimed at beefing up collaboration between commercial fishermen and scientists was announced in late October at an event in Sandwich. The Read More »
- Two N.C. fishermen behind bars -Found with more than 16 times the legal possession limit of red drum
  
  When the Marine Patrol officers inspected the contents of the truck, they found 113 red drum weighing 657 pounds, including 14 fish that were greater than Read More »
- Nova Scotia communities await decision on contentious pulp mill pipeline
  
  Allan MacCarthy, a fisherman based in Pictou County, said fishermen remain convinced the effluent would pose a threat to lobster, crab, herring and other species in Read More »
- Commercial vessel may be tied to dead menhaden
  
  A vessel with the fish-processing company Omega Protein caught more menhaden than it could carry and rolled about 30,000 of the small, silvery fish back into Read More »
- SC shrimp season fully opened but fewer local shrimpers are on the waters.
  
  Two words and one action can help South Carolina’s storied and struggling shrimping industry: Eat local. For some, it’s a culinary click-phrase that goes unpracticed. For Read More »
- How the world’s oceans could be running out of fish – BBC
  
  Global fish stocks are exploited or depleted to such an extent that without urgent measures we may be the last generation to catch food from the Read More »
- Shrimpers Lost
  
  Today we’re going shrimping in Venice, Louisiana. Acy Cooper is our guide. Sharyl: How important is the shrimping business to your personally? Acy Cooper: It’s everything Read More »
- Boat owner disputes illegal ‘liner’ charge
  
  The owner of the Gloucester trawler Princess Laura, which faces civil charges for using an illegal “net liner” in its trawl net, said Thursday that the Read More »
- Whitfield Responds to Obama’s Latest “Green Energy” Gamble
  
  “We’ve seen time and time again this administration provide billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money for green energy projects that have failed, leaving taxpayers on the Read More »
- Coast Guard rescues 2 from fishing vessel taking on water near Cape Chiniak, Alaska
  
  Kodiak, Alaska — The Coast Guard rescued two mariners Sunday after their vessel began taking on water in the vicinity of Cape Chiniak. A Coast Guard Read More »
- Sweden digs in on proposal to ban live American lobsters from Europe
  
  Sweden is digging in on a proposal to ban imports of live lobsters into the European Union after a rebuke from American scientists, and the issue Read More »
- Wildlife, including fisheries, management is a bogus enterprise
  
  Now, here’s our point. This whole business of “fisheries management” is simply mass delusion created by people who have a vested interest (money and power) in Read More »
- Into the Storm: The True Story of a Harrowing Ocean Rescue
  
  The plane was cold and the engines were loud inside the cabin. Ben Cournia slipped in foam earplugs to drown out the noise. Tendrils of light Read More »
- Fishing Permit the Main Catch in Viking Purchase – buyer is primarily interested in the inshore state fishing permits
  
  With the sale of Viking, a 40-foot fishing boat that has plied the waters off the Vineyard for three generations, the Island’s once-vibrant fleet of small Read More »
- Feds limit chinook fishery to help resident killer whale recovery
  
  The federal government is closing some recreational and commercial chinook fisheries on the West Coast in an effort to help save endangered southern resident killer whales. Read More »
- New fishing vessel certifying authority sails into post with familiar face at the helm
  
  The Maritime Coastguard Agency has appointed a new fishing vessel certifying authority. The Society of Consulting Marine Engineers and Ship Surveyors, presided over by Grimsby-based Allan Read More »
- The Sago Extreme – Closing the longline snackbar
  
  Sisters on the west coast of Norway have provided the impetus behind the development of a system designed to protect longline catches from predating whales that Read More »