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Northeast region: Change to Days-at-Sea Program Point of Contact and Information Hotline

September 3, 2013 New England

If you fish under one of the days-at-sea (DAS) programs in the Northeast region (multispecies, monkfish, or sea scallop), NOAA Fisheries wants you to know that, effective immediately, the phone number to call for all DAS services (usage, corrections, etc.) is now 978-281-9234. NMFS Bulletin 14:46

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2013 Sea Scallop Research Set-Aside Awards Announced

May 18, 2013 Mid Atlantic, New England

Eighteen researchers from seven different institutions have been awarded 2013 research grants focused on the region’s most valuable commercial fishery, . Fourteen projects involving more than 20 scallop and research vessels will be supported with awards totaling just over $12.5 million. continued

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Ocean Resource Privatization

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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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