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UPDATE: Coast Guard crews suspend the search for fisherman Gary Ketlehut near Egmont Key, Fla.

August 2, 2013 Gulf of Mexico

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Coast Guard crews suspend the search Thursday evening for a missing 53-year-old male resident of Madeira Beach, Fla., who was last seen aboard the 42-foot fishing boat, No Bull, 78 miles northwest of Egmont Key, Wednesday. continued@uscgnews

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Coast Guard searching for missing fisherman Gary Kettlehut, F/V No Bull near Egmont Key

August 1, 2013 Gulf of Mexico

Gary Kettlehut, 55, was working for the company Fishbusterz and was aboard one of their commercial fishing boats when he went missing Wednesday night. He was last seen aboard the 42-foot fishing boat, No Bull, 78 miles northwest of Egmont Key. Kettlehut wasn’t aboard the No Bull when the crew awoke at 6 a.m. continued@baynews9

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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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