Former Cortez fisherman – fisherynation.com

Tag Archives: Former Cortez fisherman

Former Cortez fisherman shares his side of case that has reached U.S. Supreme Court

November 6, 2014 Gulf of Mexico

John Yates remembers the day his life as a commercial fisherman was forever changed. The 62-year-old sat inside his Cortez furnishing store Off the Hook on Wednesday and recalled that day in October 2007. As he shared his story, Yates’ wife Sandy — who has a background in law — and their daughter Jennifer Miller were more than 900 miles away in Washington, D.C. for his case in front of the United States Supreme Court. Read the rest here 11:16

Yates v. United States to question over-criminalization Make a comment here

Comment

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
December 2024

M T W T F S S

1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30 31

« Nov

December 2024
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
	1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

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

Recent Posts
- Fundraiser established for a man that lost his shrimp boat on Thanksgiving Day
  
  McClellanville, S.C., Hello all, My name is Pressley Kellum, Noe Kellum’s daughter. November 25th, 2021, Thanksgiving Day; my dad left his boat for an hour and Read More »
- Bonavista man dies in fishing vessel incident
  
  RCMP said a man has died at sea, off the Bonavista peninsula. Police said the incident happened on a fishing vessel on Friday, about 280 kilometres off the Read More »
- UPDATED: Blockage removed from Skinners Pond harbour entrance
  
  An excavator spent most of the day Saturday on the south block of the Skinners Pond Harbour breakwater, scooping seaweed out of the port’s entrance. That’s Read More »
- Lobstermen frustrated by regulations after new study shows whale entanglements decline
  
  A new report has Maine lobstermen saying, “I told you so.” The report says large whale entanglements dropped in 2020, including for the right whale. Lobstermen Read More »
- Lobster fishing must remain in season – ‘The federal government has allowed a regulatory system with unconstitutional provisions’
  
  Wayne Easter, the P.E.I. MP who chaired the federal fisheries committee looking at moderate livelihood fisheries 21 years ago, says there are still questions to be Read More »
- Retired Nanticoke commercial fisherman catches a $2 million ace
  
  The wildly popular Catch the Ace draw resulted in a big win on Thursday evening for Richard Marshall of Nanticoke. “I just got lucky, that’s all,” Read More »
- Things look bright for the East Coast Scallop Fishery
  
  The management of the scallop fishery is a great example of what’s possible when public and private interests collaborate and natural resources cooperate. Scallop fishermen are Read More »
- Would offshore wind turbines save or ruin the Jersey Shore? Debaters rumble in Berkeley
  
  Police officers filled Central Regional High School on Tuesday night, where tensions ran high as critics and proponents of electricity generated by offshore wind faced off Read More »
- Lobstermen from Machias to Boothbay Harbor hold rally in Stonington about federal moves to limit trap lines
  
  Lobstermen gathered on the Stonington Commercial Fish Pier to draw greater attention to the issues facing the survival of their industry and the livelihoods of coastal Read More »
- Please donate to New Jersey Fisherman James Lacey’s Memorial Fund
  
  Today we mourn the loss of our brother, son, cousin, uncle, and friend James Lacey. Jim died when the fishing boat he worked on capsized in Read More »
- Good Samaritan, Coast Guard rescue 2 fishermen near Pembroke, Maine
  
  The crew of the fishing boat Alex Shea rescued two fishermen Tuesday afternoon after the fishing boat Born Again began sinking on Cobscook Bay near Pembroke, Read More »
- LETTER: Fish harvesters, plantworkers are stronger together
  
  This letter is a response to Ryan Cleary’s letter “Single union can’t represent all sides of fishery” >click here<. Uniting workers in the fishing industry through Read More »
- F/V Lone Star recovery efforts begin to pay off – “The Lone Star is currently being pumped out and floating,,,”
  
  “The Lone Star is currently being pumped out and floating, and they’re going to move it away from its current location Monday night at high tide Read More »
- County Transfers Ownership Of Shinnecock Fishing Dock To Town
  
  Elected officials and community members gathered for a ceremony last week to celebrate Suffolk County transferring ownership of the Shinnecock commercial fishing dock to Southampton Town.,, Read More »
- Feds close to lifting sea otter ban off SoCal coast: San Jose Mercury News
  
  Environmental report calls attempts to keep otters out of Southern California waters ‘futile’ ,,,,Opposition to the change in policy also comes from the commercial fishing community, Read More »
- The Voices of Gloucester Fishermen: NOAA offers virtual trip through Gloucester fishing history
  
  The voices speak to the experience of living and fishing in America’s oldest commercial seaport, of the challenges and the joys of working on the waters Read More »
- Gulf-Wide Decreases in the Size of Large Coastal Sharks Documented by Generations of Fishermen
  
  A group of scientists at Dauphin Island Sea Lab have examined 80 years of records from three of the oldest fishing rodeos in the United States, Read More »
- 36-year-old fisherman suffering from a head injury medevaced From F/V Lucky JJ – Video
  
  Corpus Christi- Coast Guard rescue helicopter and boat crews medevaced a 36-year-old fisherman. The captain of F/V Lucky J.J. made a mayday call to Sector Corpus Christi Read More »
- Benefits of fish farms in Gulf debated
  
  Fish farming is contentious, with fishermen and environmentalists warning that new rules supporting it could harm the marine environment and put fishermen out of work. Federal Read More »
- “No one promises anyone in the fishing industry a job for life. It’s not a guarantee,” John Bullard
  
  I’ve been thinking about Bullard’s statement about promises, “No one promises anyone in the fishing industry a job for life.“…….. Read more Read More »
- A nostalgic memoir recounts a fishing life, from Southeast Alaska to Bristol Bay
  
  As a teenager in 1964, the adventurous Upton lighted out from his east coast home to Iquique, “a small dusty town on the desert north coast Read More »
- One of RI’s top environmentalists is suing to block offshore wind project
  
  Trudy Coxe, the former head of Save the Bay and once the top environmental official in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, dropped a bombshell on Wednesday afternoon. Read More »
- Vancouver: Top story of ’13? Fish
  
  For three days in late August, a series of unexpected visitors came calling on Squamish. The sight of commercial fishing vessels that dropped their nets near Read More »
- Lobster fishermen wary prices will sink industry
  
  Lobster fishermen in Nova Scotia say if they don’t find a way to get more cash for their catch when the season opens in November, the entire Read More »
- Research models how deadly virus moves among Pacific salmon, trout
  
  For the first time researchers studying a deadly virus modeled how it spreads to young trout and salmon in the waters of the Columbia River Basin, Read More »