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Spiegel: Germany’s Large-Scale Offshore Windpark Dream Morphs Into An Engineering And Cost Nightmare – Cape Wind?

September 14, 2014 International News, Offshore Wind/Industrialization

So far things hardly could have gotten any worse technically, and now financially and legally. One thing is becoming very clear: In the mad rush to green energy, investors and politicians leaped before they looked. Warnings were abundant, but were simply dismissed as offhand. Now the investors and proponents are moaning loudly about the hard landing that is coming soon. Read the rest here 11:54

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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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Spiegel: Germany’s Large-Scale Offshore Windpark Dream Morphs Into An Engineering And Cost Nightmare – Cape Wind?

Ocean Resource Privatization

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

Promising news on pink salmon disaster relief funds

From the PETA Playbook? – CEO works toward a ‘humane harvest’

Businessmen fined a historic $2 million for overfishing rock lobster

2017 Commercial Salmon Harvest Summary

Ghost traps major problem in the Keys – Bill Kelly says there would be a lot of fishermen out of business

NCFA Weekly Update

South Australian fishing community calls for seal cull

Miss Ally logs detail efforts to save crew before sinking – ‘Something went terribly wrong’

‘Only virgins’ operate N. Korea fishing boat

MSA – Fishing rule gives regional councils more flexibility on catch limits

Coast Guard medevacs fisherman 20 miles north of Kodiak

American Samoa: F/V Jackson T kicked out – The vessel which is based in Hawaii is here to pick up a fishing crew

Dan Webster’s Sustainable Shark and Fisheries Trade Act Championed in Senate by Marco Rubio, Lisa Murkowski

Adrift in Canadian waters

Crescent City Harbor District – Harbor prepares for potential squid fishery

The Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Council is scheduled to meet in Biloxi, Miss. to discuss red snapper rules

Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 140′ Raised Foc’sle Mid Water Trawler with Federal Permits

Kodiak: Study Shows Skepticism With Fisheries Privatization

The Cover Up Of The Texas American Eel – by Jason Fregia

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SEA-NL Calls on Federal Fisheries Minister to Reverse Decision to Limit Increase to 2021 Northern Shrimp Quota

Father and son continue the Tilghman Island boatbuilding tradition

DFO investigates after dozens of lobster traps belonging to Mi’kmaw fisherman damaged

Bering Sea red king crab in high demand

Atlantic halibut thrive in warming Maritime waters, study finds

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