Tag Archives: Just Big
Big Old Alaskan Fish Turns Out To Be Just Big, Not Old
A nearly 40-pound rockfish caught off the southwest coast of Alaska was thought to be nearly 200 years old.
The answer lay in the watery beast’s ear bones, continued@npr
The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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Recent Posts
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Sanctuary Idea Flawed – Renee Kelly
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Fish and Game wants to operate counting projects, test fisheries regardless of shut down
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Offshore Wind Electrical Substations; The Secret, Silent Killers by Jim Lovgren
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Tasmanian researchers say Scallop deaths linked to seismic surveys being carried out on seabed
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Oceana groundfish monitoring challenge fails
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Maine tribe resists same-rules-for-all elvers plan that caps individual catches
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DFO says commercial sockeye fishery on the Skeena River unlikely in 2013
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One shrimp stock off Labrador doing well but missed surveys means no new data for two other fishing zones
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Two N.H. Fish and Game officers presented with Life Saving Award
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‘Biggest fish of my life’: A Cape Breton fisherman’s hunt for the majestic bluefin tuna
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Why offshore wind jobs may just be a lot of hot air
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Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting in Portland, Oregon April 5-11
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French fishermen begin two-day strike to highlight ‘plague of crises’
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Nova Scotia Fishermen happy with aid offer but not with timing of announcement
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Ready, go set! Lobster season opens in northern N.B. captured in pictures, video
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Monster supertrawler currently operating in Irish waters
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Lake Okeechobee – More bad water? We hope not
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N.L. group wants increase in northern cod catch from Minister Murray
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Police believe P.E.I. fish processor scammed out of load of lobster
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Lobstermen at state hearing wary of regulations to protect whales
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South Shore Fishermen Taking a Beating! FISHY BUSINESS: No vacation, just a battle for fishermen facing regulations
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Sausalito restaurateur championing local herring
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DMWR Director reports on use of Disaster Relief Fund
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Your Winter 2017 Pacific Islands Fishery Newsletter is here!
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Norwegian industry vows to keep seafood nation running amid Coronavirus chaos
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