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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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Crab harvesters will lose out on $30M because price-setting panel sided with processors, says Efford
With the time-sensitive snow crab season set to begin in a few days, fish harvesters in Newfoundland and Labrador are once again talking about tying up Read More » -
Minister to assess damage after 5 fishing boats destroyed by fire in Quebec’s Magdalen Islands
Federal fisheries minister Diane Lebouthillier was scheduled to visit the Magdalen Islands’ Grande-Entrée wharf Monday after five fishing boats were destroyed by a fire. The fire Read More » -
Gillnetters critique off-channel plan
Southwest Washington’s regional manager of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife came to Cathlamet Monday to discuss the start of a salmon net pen rearing Read More » -
Feds push ignorance defense for whale killing by offshore wind development
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the NOAA Fisheries agency have both put out what amount to “arguments from ignorance” claiming that offshore wind development Read More » -
Tsunami: Widespread Fishery Damage from Tonga Eruption Reported across Japan
Fishery damage from a tsunami triggered by the recent eruption of an undersea volcano off the southern Pacific islands of Tonga has been reported in 10 Read More » -
Hurricane Milton carves a path of destruction across Florida; millions without power or water
Millions of Floridians from coast to coast are assessing the overnight destruction left by Hurricane Milton, which made landfall at Siesta Key off Sarasota as a Read More » -
No consideration given to lobstermen by Army Corps of Engineers Royal River dredging project
The Army Corps of Engineers is overseeing the project, which is set to begin on October 14th, and last until April. Sediment will be removed from Read More » -
Coronavirus: COVID-19 hits lobster industry hard
On the day when Massachusetts restaurants officially were barred from offering on-site dining for at least three weeks, boat prices for live lobster were reported to Read More » -
Britain’s hard-toiling fishermen are cast and crew of Channel 4’s new fishing documentary series The Catch
Rugged, taciturn and fearless, fishermen are the last-action heroes of the high seas. Or so gung-ho documentaries such as Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch encourage us to Read More » -
Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update April 27, 2014
“The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More » -
Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Price Sheet for February 2020 Has Arrived!
Contact our sales team today! To review the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd., >Click here< – “The only thing we treat our fish with, is Read More » -
An Update from Commissioner Keliher Regarding CARES Act Funds
Over the past few days I have received several calls from harvesters and the press asking about the CARES Act relief money. It seems that some Read More » -
The Fisheries Broadcast with John Furlong – Wharf troubles in St. Mary’s Bay, and How to kill a seal humanely
The Fisheries Broadcast with John Furlong – Today on the show, environmental groups try to shutdown the lobster fishery. – What factors are involved for Fishermen before deciding Read More » -
9/11 Boat Evacuation: Greater Than Dunkirk
Romans 8:28 says “all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” Twenty years after Read More » -
Angry inshore harvesters from fishing area 3L demand changes to allow for quota increases
A week of angry protests by inshore crab harvesters from eastern Newfoundland cooled slightly Friday following the promise by the federal fisheries minister of a review Read More » -
St. Bernard Parish spends hundreds of thousands and still can’t get bulk ice to docks – video
“It’s sort of like white gold. Cold gold,” explained F.J. Campo, owner and operator of Campo’s Marina in Shell Beach. “If you have a boat that Read More » -
New Hampshire’s beleaguered commercial fishing industry – $2M in federal funds
New Hampshire’s 400-year-old commercial fishing fleet, made up of small boats, has worked under increasing federal regulations and restrictions since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was passed in Read More » -
Friday Tomfoolery with Sylvia Earle, the woman that would pass on the Pollock but would eat your Poodle!
So, Sylvia Earle, renowned Biologist, and anti fishing crusader, delivered her remarks to some of the biggest hypocrites in our history, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21). Read Read More » -
The Game Mac White and James Gallagher Would Play While Filming Deadliest Catch
Indeed, one of the newest (and most short-lived) cast members of the series is James Gallagher, a rookie engineer for the Lady Alaska who, thus far, Read More » -
Offshore Wind Farms: ‘I am not yet convinced’
This rollercoaster of renewable energy developments is being built, we are told, to replace our dependency on the oil industry for our power supplies, but will Read More » -
Bluefin tuna and Pew, here we go again! – Nils E. Stolpe, FishNet USA/June 24, 2013
On August 13, 1997 Josh Reichert, then Director of the Pew Trusts Environment Program and now Executive Vice President of the Trusts, in an op-ed column in the Read More » -
The 106th Rescue Wing: Pararescueman from ‘The Perfect Storm’ will speak in Westhampton October 22
In one of the dramatic scenes in the movie The Perfect Storm, a rescue helicopter appears, hovering in the wind and rain over the 80-foot seas—possibly Read More » -
This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. Sitka Herring prices could hurt the haul. Sitka’s Seiners Deliver Big, But at What Price?
As of Friday Sitka’s sac roe herring fishery had just under 3 thousand tons left to deliver. Seiners have had no problem catching the nice 16,000 Read More » -
Newlyn: Monday morning’s final-end-of-an-era fish auction.
One hundred years ago the fish market moved from the plinth in front of the harbour offices to a covered market and auction building… by the Read More » -
Turtle excluders
A federal court in Louisiana granted Attorney General Jeff Landry’s request to preliminarily enjoin implementation of a National Marine Fisheries Service’s rule requiring “Turtle Excluder Devices” Read More »
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