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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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  • Commercial Gulf shrimpers in Texas afloat for another season

    Greg Seaman, a 49-year-old Palacios native, has managed to stay afloat in a rough business. continued@victoriaadvocate Read More »
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    Wind Turbine Development and the future of fishing? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet USA

    Let’s start with commercial fishing perspectives on wind farms in the North Sea: Seventeen fishing vessels docked in the centre of Amsterdam, a city that built Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 95′ Ocean Marine Scalloper/Shrimper, 3412 Cat

    To review specifications, information, and 47 photos’, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here< 11:34 Read More »

  • Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meeting in Biloxi, MS, October 17 – 21, 2016

    The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will meet at the IP Casino & Resort, 850 Bayview Avenue, Biloxi, MS. 39530 Ballroom B, October 17- 20, Read More »

  • Scallop Fleet Responds to NMFS Criticism of NEFMC Habitat Recommendations

    Last week, NOAA Fisheries Regional Administrator John Bullard submitted a nine-page letter to the  (NEFMC) critical of recommendations made to the full Council by the Council’s Read More »

  • BP: Government overestimated size of spill

    NEW ORLEANS — BP has urged a  federal judge to rule the company can’t be penalized for millions of gallons of  oil that spewed from its Read More »

  • Thanks for All the Fish: Pollock, salmon and global warming: The tricky questions of sustainability

    Editor’s note: Seattle’s $5 billion commercial fishing industry has defined and sustained this city from its founding. Earlier this week, writer Daniel Jack Chasan looked at the local Read More »

  • Office of the State Auditor is looking at a potential audit of the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries

    Dr. Louis Daniel, DMF director, confirmed Friday the division has been contacted about a potential audit. He said he received a letter from the OSA on Read More »
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    Tough time for West Coast tuna fishermen as Albacore catch dwindles along the coast

    Ask any fishermen, processor, buyer and they will say the same thing: It’s been an abysmal season for albacore tuna. Commercial tuna fishermen are going out Read More »
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    Greenstick Tuna Fishing

    Inspired by commercial tuna fishermen, a new generation of recreational anglers now targets tuna with a green stick. The boats around us, fishing commercially, were outfitted Read More »

  • Florida’s gift to veterans for Veterans Day – easier for Florida veterans to enter the commercial fishing industry.

    The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission estimates the program will open the door to the commercial fishing industry for hundreds of veterans. http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/article/281818/4/Floridas-gift-to-veterans-for-Veterans-Day Read More »

  • Barry “Baz” Kirk didn’t take to school life but when he went fishing, a new world opened before him.

    TAKING in the sight of an engine room awash does wonders for your awareness of safety at sea. Barry “Baz” Kirk was 17 when it happened Read More »

  • USCG suspends search for missing F/V Swift crewman 25-year-old Alan Young of Chehalis, Wash.

    The Coast Guard suspended its search late last night for a crewman who went overboard from a fishing vessel near Hoonah. Alaska State Troopers identified the Read More »
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    ‘We won’: Clearwater Seafoods deal gives Mi’kmaq control of lucrative ocean stretch

    Early this week, leaders of the Membertou and Miawpukek First Nations, both of which are Mi’kmaq communities, reached an agreement to buy Nova Scotia-based Clearwater Seafoods Read More »

  • Lobster boat arsonist gets 7 years for ‘simply crazy conduct’

    Jeremy James Eaton, 40, pleaded guilty in March to setting ablaze another man’s lobster boat on April 16, 2014. The vessel was destroyed, according to court Read More »

  • Canada-EU trade deal hurting Greenland’s shrimp exports

    The tariff system which was brought in on Jan. 1 2013 saw allowances for 30,000 metric tons of cooked and peeled pandalus borealis to be shipped to Read More »

  • Man gets six months home confinement, probation for fishing violation – co-defendant cannot engage in charter or commercial fishing anywhere in the world.

    dailypress.com – ALEXANDRIA — A Mathews County man was sentenced to nearly six months in home confinement followed by three years of probation for illegally harvesting Read More »
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    Air Station Kodiak helicopter crew medevacs 2 men from 2 fishing vessels near Cold Bay, Alaska

    A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew forward deployed to Cold Bay medevaced two men Monday afternoon from the fishing vessels Ocean Peace Read More »

  • Must Read – Fears for our fishery, Father Ed Brophy, St. Alban’s

    Fellow Newfoundlanders, according to the news, a large Newfoundland fish company called Quin-Sea is about to be taken over by an even larger company from Denmark. Read More »

  • Tierney pushes for shielded NOAA report- Kerry said he “has been assured” the administration is working to bring out Swartwood II. Yeah, right.

    Congressman John Tierney Friday pressed Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank to release what is widely believed within industry and legal circles to be an explosive set Read More »

  • On the Pipe? The Freaks at EDF that brought you Catch Shares now wants you monitored 100% following THEIR failure!

    Matt Mullin said the EDF supports governor-elect Charlie Baker’s recent calls for better fisheries data. The expansion of the observer program would go a long way Read More »

  • Herring bait shortage could pinch Maine Lobstermen

    Maine regulators are considering intervening to help fix a bait shortage that threatens to affect its signature lobster fishing industry. Lobstermen typically use herring for bait, Read More »
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    F/V Emmy Rose: NTSB uses video, high-res photos in probe of sunken fishing vessel

    Investigators trying to learn why a commercial fishing boat sank off Massachusetts nearly a year ago, taking the lives of all four crew members, are using Read More »

  • WHITE SHARKS HEADED FOR CALIFORNIA ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST (if it’s the last thing they do, they will stop fishing)

    The California Department of Fish and Game will recommend that the Northeast Pacific population of white sharks be listed as a threatened or endangered species under Read More »

  • Montague Bay Foods to open lobster plant soon, looking to diversify

    A refurbished processing plant that will open shortly  to process lobster intends to become a year-round operation. That’s the hope for Montague Bay Foods, which is Read More »

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