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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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Solution to deal with B.C.’s sea lion surplus? Harvest them, group suggests
Sea lion populations have been on the rise for years and wreaking havoc on commercial fishermen’s catches and equipment, according to the Pacific Balance Pinniped Society. Read More » -
Fishermen Are Making Their Last Stand Against Offshore Wind. Really? When?!! I don’t want to miss it!
U.S. Fishermen Are Making Their Last Stand Against Offshore Wind – In Massachusetts, the fishing advocates who sued BOEM say that the federal government ignored their Read More » -
Carillion Canada to Pay $250,000 for Federal Fisheries Act Violations
Following a full investigation by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, chargeswere laid against Carillion Canada Inc., and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. The charges followed the repeated deposits of Read More » -
Fish kill: Areas of Neuse River banks covered in dead menhaden
For as far as one can see, dead Atlantic menhaden lay sprawled out across the riverbank, the result of the Neuse River’s most recent fish kill. Read More » -
Bull shark caught in the Potomac
A bull shark was caught last week in the Potomac River in a commercial fisherman’s net. Robert T. Brown, president of the Maryland Watermen’s Association, and Read More » -
How is Coronavirus impacting BC’s fishermen?
Doug Kostering, a fisherman who docks in Port Hardy, had a two week delay to this start of his halibut fishing this year as the offices Read More » -
Rescued sealer Glen Newbury gets CF/V Double N back after evacuation
A sealer rescued off Newfoundland’s southeast coast last week when his boat was too close to an iceberg was pleasantly surprised when he got his vessel back Read More » -
How a stolen shrimp boat ended up on an SC sandbar
Charlie Werner left his shrimp boat alone for maybe 15 hours on Halloween weekend, but it was enough time for the vessel to go missing, stolen Read More » -
Study: Narragansett Bay temps reached record highs, lows last year
An oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography said temperatures in Narragansett Bay hit record highs and lows in 2015. Jeremy Collie Read More » -
Eddie Emery sends this photo from Connecticut – Black Sea bass. Devouring everything they can
Black Sea bass. Devouring everything they can. Every trap of a 10 pot trawl. Too many predators lobsters won’t go near them. All summer long everywhere Read More » -
European buyers more acceptant on Alaska salmon MSC withdrawal. (to MSC, or to not MSC – that is the question)
undercurrentnews.com – An acceptance of Alaska salmon producers decision to withdraw from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is very much in evidence at the European seafood Read More » -
Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick makes last-ditch appeal for fishermen
With one week to go before severe quota cutbacks descend on the Northeast groundfishery, Gov. Deval Patrick has written to interim Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank and Read More » -
Three years running for free lobster from the Ames family
For his third year now, Matinicus lobsterman Noah Ames has parked his truck in front of Midcoast Marine Supply at 153 New County Road in Thomaston Read More » -
The government wants more offshore fish farms, but no one is biting
Off the coast of San Diego, America’s eighth largest city, commercial fishermen harvest about 1,100 metric tons of seafood from the Pacific every year. That sounds Read More » -
Fishing vessel fire in Homer harbor
A fishing vessel was engulfed in flames early Thursday at the Homer Port and Harbor, resulting in what the harbormaster there believes is “a complete loss” of Read More » -
Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 95′ Raised Forecastle Steel Dragger, 1400HP Detroit 12V-149
To review specifications, information, and 28 photos’, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here< 12:10 Read More » -
Groundswell – Revisiting MSA Reauthorization 2006 – Who Owns the Flying Duck? by Terry Haines
Who owns the air? Who owns the ocean? Who owns a duck flying overhead, on his way to his summer house in the Arctic marshes? Does everyone? Read More » -
Who’s really in charge of U.S. fisheries? – Nils Stolpe, FishnetUSA
An Oligarchy is defined as “a country, business, etc., that is controlled by a small group of people” – Ancient City Shrimp is an eight minute YouTube Read More » -
NEFMC and MAFMC propose new bycatch reporting system for Northeast fisheries
The Mid-Atlantic and New England fishery management councils jointly proposed the revision. They want the revision to apply to all 13 fishery management plans in the Read More » -
Death traps lurk for fish in Southwest Florida waters
Judy Ott and her crew spent Wednesday searching for one of the most efficient aquatic killers in Florida: lost and abandoned blue crab traps. [email protected] Read More » -
The Fall 2014 issue of the Pacific Islands Fishery Newsletter is here!…
Issues and articles pertaining to the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, and region. Obama’s Proclamation, Pacific Bigeye Tuna Movement and Distribution Workshop, Striped Marlin, Catch Limits Read More » -
Hugh blamed for new law that could devastate fishing industry in Plymouth – lunacy and madness
Westcountry celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is being blamed for the new rules thanks to his televised Fish Fight campaign, which targets discards. At present fisherman have Read More » -
Commercial fishery for black sea bass ends after four months – Closed – Cape Hatteras to Key West, Fla.,
The year-long commercial fishery for black sea bass closed earlier this month after being open for just four months, a preemptive measure designed to protect recovering Read More » -
North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for October 02, 2020
Legislative updates, Bill updates, Calendar, >Click here to read the Weekly Update<, to read all the updates >click here<, for older updates listed as NCFA >click here< 11:11 Read More » -
B.C. fishermen facing limited or no openings for sockeye
Commercial fishermen in B.C. won’t be getting many – if any – opportunities to harvest sockeye salmon this year, though they may be able to at Read More »
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