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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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10-year pilot project: On-board processing of Hake discussed by Regional District of Mount Waddington board
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Opinion: The high price of our food
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Virtual Interview with “Acoustic Dome” Team – would repel seals with sound waves, hopefully sharks would follow…
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Economic Impacts of the Mississippi Seafood Industry
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Counting Fish – The full documentary can be seen here!
New England groundfishermen are in trouble. The annual catch limits are now set so low that many boats remain tied to the dock. But controversy abounds. Read More » -
Bodega Bay boats set out for Dungeness crab along Sonoma Coast
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Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council’s spiny lobster review panel, Monday, Feb 9, 0:900
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Md. seafood survives another round on guest worker program
Leaders of Maryland’s seafood industry are cheering an expansion of a guest worker program they deem critical for crab season as part of the $1.1 trillion Read More » -
La. and Texas Fisheries Agencies File Joint Lawsuit challenging National Marine Fisheries Service Red Snapper Emergency Rule
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Gloucester’s annual Overdose Vigil grows and glows on waterfront
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“NO PIPE, NO WAY” Northern Pulp effluent pipe protest draws huge crowds on land and sea in Pictou
Hundreds of people from all three Maritime provinces gathered Friday in Pictou, N.S., to protest Northern Pulp’s plan to put an effluent pipe into the Northumberland Read More » -
Formal Coast Guard investigation of F/V Alaska Juris sinking begins on Monday
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ACOA loans a half-million dollars to a Nova Scotia company helping Chinese men get boners
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Hope, history and redemption abound at the boatyard
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Maine lobstermen’s union votes to buy Hancock County lobster business
The Maine Lobstering Union voted Saturday to buy a wholesale lobster business near Mount Desert Island to help its fishermen net a bigger share of the Read More » -
Dumping Day! Lobster fishery finally underway in southwestern N.S. – Crew safe after boat sinks
Shrouded in darkness, hundreds of fishing boats left the wharves in communities across western Nova Scotia early Saturday morning for the first day of lobster fishing Read More » -
Del Norte honors fishermen
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Fishermen worry Northern Pulp treatment plan will create ‘dead zone’
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Warm waters strain shared BC-Washington salmon fishery – So what happened this year?
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10-foot white shark accidentally caught off Massachusetts coast – Utilized for Science
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Wisconsin’s Dwindling Commercial Fisheries Contend With A Farmed Future
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Maine fishermen donate catch to food bank, local schools
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Looking Back with FishNetUSA: The case for Bureaucratic Monitoring Systems (BMSs)
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Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative responds to questions about its effectiveness
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