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U.S. Coast Guard investigates fishing vessel for knowingly discharging oil in Canadian waters

July 20, 2018 Canada, North Pacific, Pacific

Investigators from Coast Guard Sector Anchorage and Marine Safety Detachment Dutch Harbor, and Coast Guard Investigative Service agents are investigating the fishing vessel Mark I for knowingly discharging oil overboard in Canadian waters. A Transport Canada aircrew detected the Mark I transiting through the Canadian exclusive economic zone 97-miles off of Cape St. James, British Columbia, with an approximate 26-mile oil sheen trailing behind, July 7. (photo credit vesselfinder.com)>click to read<11:12

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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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U.S. Coast Guard investigates fishing vessel for knowingly discharging oil in Canadian waters

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

Weather ‘bomb’ slams New England, knocking out power to more than 1 million

Suicide by job: Farmers, lumberjacks, fisherman top list

That Peter Shelley. He’s got all the answers! – Why can’t the US be more like the Canadians?

Our View: Quinn would serve New Bedford, Fishery Council well

Maine to spend $25 million to rebuild waterfront after devastating winter storms and flooding

Lloyd leaves Kodiak fisheries consultant post for Anchorage position

Bristol Bay salmon values = $141 million (before bonuses)

Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 38′ Northern Bay Lobster/Tuna, 6 Cylinder Iveco,

New Jersey asks judge to block ocean blasting plan

Lobster prices in New England have spiked to their highest level in more than a decade

Their strange route home led them to a rescue

Fishermen make last-ditch plea to feds over harbor porpoises closure date

New Brunswick scientists seek cod parasite vaccine

‘DFO has to step in,’ says fisheries official of St. Marys Bay black market lobster

DFO stock assessment – Halibut and Haddock flourishing, cod struggling

Coast Guard Veteran, Retired Commercial Fisherman Vito J. Calomo has passed away

Commercial fishermen sounding alarm about snapper stocks

Coronavirus: Dear UFA Members and Friends, people arriving in Alaska are required to self-quarantine

Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 63′ Steel Shrimper/Trawler,1986, Dragger, Shrimper Steel, Detroit

Hurricane Matthew Warnings Shift Toward Florida, Gov. Rick Scott declares a State of Emergency

UK secures fishing access and quotas with Norway

Wind Farm Vessel Collides With Turbine Tower

Doubt surrounds stranded sailors as Coast Guard reveals women had emergency beacon and never activated it

NOAA can’t make rules for offshore fish farms

And they’re off! The 2024-25 lobster season in southwestern Nova Scotia opens with Dumping Day

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