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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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Let those alewives go
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Western Wave in Portland Harbor just now
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Advance notice of proposed rulemaking; request for comments; American Lobster Fishery; Control Date for Lobster Conservation Management Areas
At the request of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, this notice announces a control date that may be applicable, but not limited to, limiting the Read More » -
Keys Stone Crab: High Demand and Low Supply Equals Big Money
As one commercial fisherman colorfully put it, “I could catch more crabs on Duval Street right now than in the Florida Bay.” Understandably, Bill Kelly, the Read More » -
The Battle for the Ocean Floor
Mining rare minerals and metals from beneath the ocean could avoid the environmental damage of on-shore mining, and fuel our sustainable transition. In the most common version Read More » -
Gloucester F/V Terra Nova Sinks, Two Men Retrieved, then Tragedy
BOSTON − Coast Guard crews rescued two male crew members after a commercial fishing vessel that was taking on water sank three miles east of Cape Ann, Read More » -
Trade Deals: Maine Lobster industry fears lost sales from ramped-up Canadian exports
A new trade deal looming between Canada and the European Union is setting off alarm bells in the Maine lobster industry. The deal between Canada and Read More » -
20 crew members on vessel in Dutch Harbor test positive for COVID-19 in latest seafood industry outbreak
A factory trawler joined a growing list of seafood processors and vessels in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands that have experienced COVID-19 outbreaks recently. Twenty members of the Read More » -
F/V “Miss Laurie” Commercial Fishing Boat Catches Fire On Housatonic – Details are sketchy
The three people were taken to Bridgeport Hospital, and the captain of the fishing boat suffered third-degree burns, the Coast Guard spokesman said.. Read more here 10:45 Read More » -
West Coast Fishermen cautiously optimistic for strong salmon season
After three difficult years when Chinook salmon population numbers were down and fishing opportunities were limited, commercial fishermen are hoping that the upcoming season will be Read More » -
Dumping Night in Digby: LFA 35 fishermen enjoy warm and calm start to lobster season
Fishermen were allowed to leave the Digby wharf at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 14 and, thanks to a light southerly breeze of 25 kilometres an hour, Read More » -
Is the fishing industry irrelevant to our governments?
Now our governments are auctioning off vast areas of valuable seabed to wind farm developers, with the apparent approval and encouragement of our own Shetland Islands Read More » -
NCFA Weekly Update for Jan. 2, 2015
Weekly Update for Jan. 2, 2015 as a PDF 21:43 Read More » -
BBC documentary examines mass crab die off on Teesside coast and what has happened since
A TV documentary examining the impact of the mass crab and lobster die off on the Teesside coast is set to air. We Are England: Trouble Read More » -
Cape Cod gray seal population estimated at up to 50K
While the first day of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission’s annual meeting, held for the first time on Cape Cod, dealt with threats to a tiny Read More » -
Obama: new measures to crack down on illegal fishing at “Our Ocean” 2015 Pow Wow!
The Obama administration on Monday announced plans to further crack down on illegal fishing, a global problem that can hurt both fishing communities in impoverished nations Read More » -
Louisiana Oysters on the brink: ‘It’s not a decline; it’s zero population’
Three years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, local oystermen and processors say Louisiana oysters are tough to come by this winter and the state’s $300 Read More » -
Trudeau Government’s Fisheries Mismanagement is Cutting Through Atlantic Canada
Clifford Small, MP for Coast of Bays-Central-Notre Dame and Shadow Minister for Fisheries, Oceans and ick Perkins,The Canadian Coast Guard; Rick Perkins, MP for South Shore-St. Read More » -
Shetland trawler hits out at ‘dangerous’ encounter
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A fisherman’s view of the state of commercial fishing
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Breaking: Coast Guard calls off search for Foxy Lady II crew
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Green Party responds to FISH-NL questionnaire
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A Health Care Plan That Fits Your Needs
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Jane Lubchenco to leave NOAA in Feburary – Jellyfish Jane’s Heady Top Twenty List (to be discected)
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UPDATED:SEARCH SUSPENDED – Search on for overboard fisherman from F/V Seeker 10 miles northwest of Unimak Island
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