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Latest Update (05:01eastern) on Hurricane Gonzalo, to Bring Risk of Flooding, Damaging Wind to Newfoundland

October 16, 2014 Canada, National

After blasting Bermuda, Gonzalo will travel into Canada waters and will pass near the Avalon Peninsula in southeastern Newfoundland this weekend. How rough weather conditions get in Newfoundland will depend on the exact track and strength of the system as it takes a curved path to the northeast over the North Atlantic Ocean. Read the rest here 09:27

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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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Latest Update (05:01eastern) on Hurricane Gonzalo, to Bring Risk of Flooding, Damaging Wind to Newfoundland

Ocean Resource Privatization

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

Sanfilippo invited to Rose Garden for salmon fight

Shrimpers and Crabbers Get Paid to Collect Abandoned Traps, Saving Wildlife from Derelict Fishing Hazards

Pacific County a ‘big fish’ in new NOAA update – Big surge in value for county fisheries between 2012 and 2103

Alaska’s Bering Sea snow crab quota down 50 percent

It’s Race Day! From giant lobsters to grandfather clocks, NASCAR’s top 14 novelty trophies, ranked

Todays Warped Opinion of CLF Hyperbole – Same Old, Same Old

At the Pacific Fishery Management Council Meeting Today, A Citizen Made a Public Comment

Blue Lobsters Have Better Luck, so PETA Releases Dye Kit to Save Them All

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Hot Air And The Offshore Wind Industry – Claims it will invigorate these state economies are thin gruel

Vineyard Wind project in RI moves forward

FISH-NL calls for independent, expert review of DFO in light of reported dramatic decline of key stocks

Seal hunt bill swan song for veteran MP Greg Kerr

GOP Senate candidate Geoff Diehl visits New Bedford waterfront

Long-time REGULATION STRAPPED Barnegat Light fishing family calls it quits

Electronic monitoring long-awaited boon for Cape Cod fishermen

US warns threat of an export ban over continued killing of seals by Scots fish farms

Police say fisherman’s death in Portland Harbor was accidental

Not so fast on Atlantic marine monument – By Jon Williams

Should the Scallop Industry that saved itself from NMFS doom regulate itself? You’re damned right it should!

Few native fishing complaints valid: MNRF

The untold truth of the Petit de Grat tragedy

French fishermen could pay to fish British waters after Brexit

Kodiak man dives into scallop fishery – has been fishing scallops out of Kodiak for 40 years

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