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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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North Carolina Commercial fishermen are bracing for another attempt to place striped bass, red drum and speckled trout off limits
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Maine Lobstermen Ask Court to Block State Agency from Enforcing a 24-Hour Location Monitoring Mandate Pending the Resolution of Their Lawsuit
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Register for Webinar – Monday, July 29, 2013 6:00 PM – 7:30 – SAFMC Live Q&A Session With Staff Regarding Dolphin Wahoo Amendment 5
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Deckboss – PROTEST ALERT: Alaska Fishermen Protest at Anchorage Walmart – 10:00AM (AKDT), Wednesday, September 4, 2013
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Beaufort County shrimpers netting big white shrimp as season opens. ‘Thankful everyday’
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Terry McAuliffe says all Maryland crabs are born in Virginia
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F/V FIERCE ALLEGIANCE gets $4M Major Vessel Overhaul at Pacific Fishermen Shipyard
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A vanishing coastal icon
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Baby eels are wriggling gold – Maine lawmakers look to ease restrictions on lucrative elver fishery
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Monday morning in Newlyn
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Did catch shares enable the Codfather’s fishing fraud?
Carlos Rafael’s guilty plea late last month of falsifying fish quotas, conspiracy and tax evasion has prompted renewed criticism of one of the most contentious parts Read More » -
DFO scientist says no ‘strong indications’ seals are gobbling up all the cod
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Editorial: Affront to justice on fishing report demands criminal probe Gloucester Daily Times
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New Opportune joins the local fleet
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Commercial Dungeness crab season scheduled to start on Nov. 15
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Big, bold venture – the new Crystal Sea has begun fishing from Newlyn.
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Coast Guard completes 5-hr tow of fishing vessel offshore Yachats, Ore.
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LeBlanc offers fall season to fishermen squeezed by right whale measures
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With demands for an investigation, Skipper describes how local boats are pushed out of fishing grounds
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Coast Guard responds to F/V Naknek Spirit – run aground early Saturday in Passage Canal six miles east of Whittier in Prince William Sound
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