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Sandy grant program open to N.J. fishing businesses – From NOAA federal fishery disaster declaration fund

October 1, 2014 Mid Atlantic

Fishing businesses upended by Hurricane Sandy may be eligible for up to $10,000 in grants to recover from the 2012 storm that tossed around boats and splintered apart docks. The money is available for party and charter boat operators, commercial dealers and commercial fishermen and owners of aquaculture businesses, marinas and bait and tackle shops through a $2.1 million program announced by the state Department of Environmental Protection today. Read more here 07:52

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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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