Tag Archives: Down 19% Compared to Last Year
Snow Crab Quota Down 19% Compared to Last Year
The total allowable catch for the Bering Sea Snow Crab fishery is over 53.9-million pounds. more@kdlg 08:54
The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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Recent Posts
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Connecticut’s Waterways Take a Chemical Bath – (and they wonder why the River Herring are in trouble?)
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Two environmental groups to create political alliance for political influence
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Regional Fishery Council News
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Delaware: Bowers Beach man cited for commercial fishing violations
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Liftboat Surveying Sunken Fishing Vessel Off Point Pleasant Beach
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The Ocean State Says Goodbye to Its Beloved ‘Herring Man’
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The mysterious case of Alaska’s strange sockeye salmon returns this year
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Elda Curtis Henry, followed in his Commercial Fisherman fathers footsteps, has passed away
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Colourful look back at Folkestone Trawler Race as organisers announce new date
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The $2 million fish? Jersey fishermen calling on government to allow targeting the bluefin tuna market
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Coakley lawsuit vs. NOAA thrown out – Judge recounted NOAA’s slick Bigelow/ Albatross transition!
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“I’m in fear of my livelihood,” “They really don’t listen to us.” Florida shortens stone crab season over industry objections
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Seattle salmon fishing industry reacts to FDA approval of genetically engineered salmon
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The small change that meant big losses for Nova Scotia lobstermen
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Cape Bald Packers fish plant ‘total loss,’ says Cap-Pelé fire chief
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B.C. fishers celebrate DFO announcement allowing spot prawn ‘tubbing’ to continue
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High Liner: Captain Salvatore Parisi and F/V St. Rosalie
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October is National Seafood Month – Where people eat the most/least seafood. This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch
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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update MAR 1, 2015
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Up to 70 North Atlantic right whales were spotted in Cape Cod Bay
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South Atlantic Region FISHERY BULLETIN – Fishermen are reminded that the red snapper season in will not open in July 2013.
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Opinion: In memoriam of Blue Harvest — private equity giveth, and it taketh away
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Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management Policy and Roadmap – Its your duty to comment!
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42nd East Coast Commercial Fishermen’s & Aquaculture Trade Exposition January 15 – 17, 2016
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Fishing boat stuck in undredged Steveston Harbour
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