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“This was my dreamboat as a kid” The Viking legacy lives on

June 13, 2014 New England

After a long winter dry-docked at Sunset Bay Marina in Hull, the snow has finally melted from beneath the Viking’s stilted home along side other boats awaiting their spring plunge back into the Bay of Boston. This year the Viking will return to her destiny: a working fishing boat. Captain Matt has passed the Viking over to a true fisherman, Mike Wheeler. Read more here 10:15

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Fishing Permit the Main Catch in Viking Purchase – buyer is primarily interested in the inshore state fishing permits

November 30, 2012 New England

With the sale of Viking, a 40-foot fishing boat that has plied the waters off the Vineyard for three generations, the Island’s once-vibrant fleet of small wooden draggers is now at the brink of extinction.

Craig Coutinho of Vineyard Haven confirmed this week that he will sell Viking along with his fishing permits.http://www.mvgazette.com/news/2012/11/29/fishing-permit-main-catch-viking-purchase

photo Mark Lovewell

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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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