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SitNews – Complaint Filed in U.S. District Court Challenging Fisheries Monitoring Program

December 27, 2012 North Pacific

(SitNews) Juneau, Alaska – The Juneau-based Boat Company has filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) program for monitoring discard (bycatch) in large volume trawl fisheries. The complaint, filed on December 21st, requests that the court remand the Final Rule to NMFS for,,,,,,, Read More

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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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SitNews – Complaint Filed in U.S. District Court Challenging Fisheries Monitoring Program

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date

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

Recent Posts

Few native fishing complaints valid: MNRF

The Reef’s Self-Serving Saviours

Land ahoy! Fishermen challenge presidential designations of ocean monuments

Stone-crab season starts Wednesday

Grand Isle commercial fisherman high on drugs, sentenced to 20 years for his sixth DUI conviction

Despite the Coronavirus pandemic, bait shrimping business is good

DREDGEMASTER: The World First Wireless Monitoring System for Scallop Dredges.

The Sunken Tender Lone Star is Still Leaking Fuel into the Igushik River

Pollock, salmon catchers clash over bycatch

Coast Guard Responds to Fishing Vessel in distress off South Carolina coast

Alaska fishing group flags concerns with income tax proposal

Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 57′ Fiberglass Scalloper, 350 HP Cummins

Cape May fisherman finds submerged engine from WWII-era aircraft

High Sea Surface Temperatures on Northeast U.S. Shelf Moderated in 2013, Other Ecosystem Shifts Noted

The Cape’s Scallopers Ride Out a Perfect Storm

Maggiolo Launches Anchovy Catcher for Exalmar

Repeating the agenda “talking points”: Advocates say NH is blowing its chance at offshore wind

Animal Rights Groups Implore Obama To Impose Trade Sanctions On Iceland

Lady Washington out of the water is still shipshape – ON THE WATERFRONT WITH DAVID G. SELLARS

Doherty: Pharmaceuticals are poisoning NJ’s water supply, putting families at risk. We must act now.

Gloucester – Marciano Challenge Fish Filleting Premiere

NOAA – Dolphin deaths an “Unusual Mortality Event” in the Mid-Atlantic

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting in Virginia Beach, June 8 thru 11, 2015 – Listen Live

U.S. shrimp industry seeks relief from cheaper foreign imports

Fire destroys crab processing plant in Cottlesville

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