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Local shrimper Rocky Magwood not sure if the Coast Guard will take his boat, F/V Lady Eva – Fundraiser set

December 20, 2013 South Atlantic

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — Rocky Magwood says he has to wade through federal red tape before he can get back on his boat and work to salvage it. Read more@abcnews4 22:31

Fundraiser set for owner of sunken shrimp boat – Read more@live5news 22:37

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F/V Lady Eva sank at the Wando Seafood Company dock in Shem Creek

December 18, 2013 South Atlantic

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Members assigned to Coast Guard Sector Charleston are monitoring a sunken vessel Wednesday for potential pollution in Shem Creek, in Mount Pleasant, S.C. The owner of the Lady Eva informed the Coast Guard the vessel had little to no fuel aboard due to operations over the last few days. Soft sorbent padding and sausage boom has been placed around the vessel in an effort to capture any residual pollution. more@uscgnews 15:40

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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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