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£20.8 million funding boost for the Scottish fishing industry

July 17, 2023 International, International News

The UK Government today (Monday 17 July) announced the latest Scottish projects to receive investment from the £100 million UK Seafood Fund. A total of £18.7 million is being awarded to 10 projects across Scotland through the Infrastructure Scheme to improve capability at ports, harbours, processing and aquaculture facilities. In addition, £2.1 million is being allocated to four Scottish projects through the Fisheries Industry Science Partnerships (FISP) scheme to provide vital research that will inform fisheries management. >click to read< 11:41

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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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Tag Archives: Minister for Scotland John Lamont

£20.8 million funding boost for the Scottish fishing industry

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

Ocean Beauty permanently closes Petersburg cannery

Coast Guard searching for vessel in distress off New Jersey

NEFMC sets groundfish fishery quota for upcoming fishing years

Fishermen’s Doubts Persist on South Fork Wind Farm

Dare County leaders reviving Working Watermen Commission

UPDATED: Search for missing fishermen continues today

Cod could choke catch of other fish

Fish becoming transgender from contraceptive pill, chemicals being flushed down household drains

Lawsuits could lead to changes at Northwest fish hatcheries

Is IG Zinser Being “Swift Boated”? Watchdog wins reprieve for Commerce Department agents under gag agreement

State House hearing on calamari shows importance of squid to R.I. economy

“Red Listed” – Louisiana unhappy with California group’s ‘avoid’ shrimp label

F/V OPTIMUS – Maiden Voyage

2 West Coast commercial fishing vessel mishaps included in NTBS Safer Seas Digest 2016

The unknown, the unsolved and the unexplained … Part 2

F/V Emmy Rose: Side Scan Sonar locates sunken fishing vessel off the Massachusetts Coast

Bodies confirmed as missing fishermen of the Fishing Vessel Jubilee

Snow crab landing in Bering Sea

Fishermen hope legislation benefits industry. Charlston Huckster wearing a cheap rug strokes’ em with Pew Lotion!

GDT Fish Tales: Gloucester fisherman Joseph Orlando

Boothville Man Cited For Commercial Fishing Violations in Plaquemines Parish

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Public Listening Session: Clean Ocean Zone Initiative

Our Heritage on Display – Vintage fishing boat Roann catches visitors’ fancy at Cape fest

The Hookpod – New UK invention to save the albatross

Late post! New England Fishery Management Council meeting April 16-18, 2019 in Mystic, CT

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