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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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Stonington Lobster Boat Races, The Fastest Boats on the Coast! – July 9th, 2017
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Labrador crew maintain their smiles despite heavily damaged Arctic vessel
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Canadian offshore shrimp sector braces for cuts – “We’re all shocked by the conclusions of the science.,,
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Fishermen begin legal campaign over dead shellfish
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Commercial Lobsterman Norbert B. Stamps Jr., of Charlestown, R.I., has passed away
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Partial transcript of Carlos Rafael’s meeting with undercover IRS agents
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WCVB-TV Channel 5’s ‘Chronical’ to feature an interview of Richard Gaines, 7:30 pm
Chronicle, WCVB-TV Channel 5’s venerable 30-minute travelogue of New England and its cities and towns, will be re-running a segment on the city of Gloucester tonight at Read More » -
On Ernest Hemingway’s great love: His boat
Paul Hendrickson’s new biography of Ernest Hemingway is a story of love and companionship, between Hemingway and Pilar — his boat. “She had been intimately his, Read More » -
Court Ruling on Aquaculture – NOAA remains committed to expanding sustainable U.S. aquaculture
NOAA is considering whether to appeal the Eastern District of Louisiana’s finding that NOAA does not have regulatory authority to regulate aquaculture under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Read More » -
UK government faces legal challenge over visa system for migrant fishers
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Stanley Clarence Hasbrouck of Tillamook, Oregon, has passed away
Stanley C. Hasbrouck, loving father of six, passed away on Jan. 7, 2021 at the age of 88. Stan was born on May 3, 1932 to Read More » -
Access to Information Act Docs: Federal fisheries office in Comox on chopping block for more than a year
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Fisheries Survival Fund: Change Offshore Wind Farm Areas to Protect Scallops
The Fisheries Survival Fund , is requesting that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which is responsible for leasing areas for offshore development, incrementally change its lease Read More » -
NOAA confirms 67 large whale entanglements nationally in 2022 – none involving the North Atlantic right whale
NOAA Fisheries has released the National Report on Large Whale Entanglements Confirmed in the United States in 2022. In 2022, there were 67 large whale entanglement Read More » -
Spacing of Deepwater RI Ocean Wind Turbines Ignored After Deaths
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N.L. regulators watching closely as B.C. requires life jackets on fishing vessels
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National Ocean Policy: A New Bureaucracy That Could Compromise Regional Fisheries Management By Stephanie Madsen
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Norwegian company to build large, land-based salmon farm in Belfast
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Oral argument scheduled for observer lawsuit
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Scallop Industry Set Aside Program Funds Mid-Atlantic Loggerhead Turtle Research – Northeast Sea Turtle Collaborative tagged 20 deploying two solar-powered test units.
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Lobstermen worry looming deadline for new regulations comes ‘too soon’ to change gear
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National Hurricane Center Advisories for the Atlantic- Tropical Storm Laura, and Tropical Storm Marco
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And then they came for the lobstermen…
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Fishermen speaking up against proposed logbooks by NC Marine Fisheries
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Fish war on?
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