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Saturday Fishermen’s Market: Commercial fisherman Joe Garrigan sells fresh caught seafood

October 31, 2021 Pacific

At 7:30 a.m., the plastic tub is full, stacked with several dozen lobsters. By the end of the day, all will be gone, fresh spiny lobsters captured off the Santa Barbara coast, straight into people’s homes. It’s a spot where people can buy fresh fish caught by commercial fishermen. There’s no middle distributor.,, Joe and Melissa Garrigan have been selling lobster every Saturday morning for the past 11 years. >click to read< 10:52

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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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Saturday Fishermen’s Market: Commercial fisherman Joe Garrigan sells fresh caught seafood

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

Recent Posts

Nokomis Fishing Capt. Eddie Toomer is the second American to receive the Gladding Memorial Award for sustainable fishing.

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Some bright spots for high-value salmon, halibut in 2021

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Trident Seafoods to close Alaska plant for three weeks after COVID-19 outbreak

The ghost ships clogging up WA’s marinas and waterways

Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 44’11”x21 Novi Lobster/Scalloper, Price reduced

Maine Panel Approves 2014-15 Scallop Rules

PERC’s Alden recognized as an innovator for fisheries sustainability work

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Cullen slams Shea over sockeye crisis – “The minister … is doing just as good as a job as she did last time, which is to say terrible.”

Trudeau offers support to Newfoundland over disputed fisheries fund

8 more wild salmon restoration projects to receive funding in B.C.

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Sister of missing Night Raider fisherman wants answers, asks why search didn’t start sooner

City of Gloucester lands fish processing plant, 225 jobs

Coast Guard medevacs injured fisherman from F/V Prowler near St. Paul, Alaska

On This day, July 4, 1776

Stanford biology professor Barbara Block warns that the bluefin is trouble because of decades of overfishing.

Brad Hunter: Modern day hunter-gatherer

Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd. ordered to pay $100,000 for academic research after illegal pesticide dump

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