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South Georgia supports 8,000-mile homecoming for historic Hull trawler Viola

December 30, 2019 International News

The campaign to bring the historic steam trawler Viola back to Hull from her current resting place in the near the Antarctic has received messages of support from South Georgia. Nigel Phillips CBE, Her Majesty’s Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, was presented with a bottle of Viola gin, a commemorative Viola calendar and a signed Viola book by Dr Robb Robinson, maritime historian and one of the trustees leading the £27m Yorkshire Maritime City project. video, >click to read< 12:49

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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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South Georgia supports 8,000-mile homecoming for historic Hull trawler Viola

Ocean Resource Privatization

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

Recent Posts

SitNews – Viewpoints: Letters / Opinions Misinformation about halibut catch sharing plan by Tom Gemmell

Seafood Harvesters of America “National Outreach Days,” in Washington D.C.

Commercial Dungeness crab season under way in the Bay Area

Coast Guard responds to fishing vessel grounded on Clatsop Spit near the Columbia River Bar entrance, Wash.

A day in the life of a Georgia shrimper

Copper River Sockeye Season Strengthens and Continues

Falmouth working boat in Carrick Roads vandalised at Penpol Feock

Letter: Richard Gaines, a true journalism original Mark Leibovich – Washington, D.C. Chief national correspondent, New York Times Magazine

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Work on Atlantic Marine Monument not done yet, Eric Reid, North Kingstown, Rhode Island

A special exhibition opened in memory of one of the founders of the Scottish Fisheries Museum

Labour Relations Board orders release of FFAW/ASP lists of inshore harvesters

How a small town in Nova Scotia is taking a stand against deepwater drilling in the Atlantic

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Gloucester celebrates its finest kind

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