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Solar energy and more: Seeking to improve energy efficiency, sustainability in the fishing fleet

November 23, 2024 National

Through two provincially funded programs, Nova Scotia’s fishing fleet is becoming more energy efficient and sustainable. The Fisheries and Aquaculture Energy Efficiency Innovation Fund (FAEEIF) offers $6.5 million over three years in incentives to help prepare the commercial fisheries and aquaculture sectors in Nova Scotia to reduce their energy use and mitigate climate change impacts. The Nova Scotia Seafood Innovation and Technology Adoption Program (NS-ITAP) provides non-repayable financial assistance to Nova Scotia commercial entities in the fishing, aquaculture, marine plant harvesting, and seafood buying and processing sector to increase productivity, competitiveness, quality and sustainability. The Brazil Rock 33 34 Lobster Association has been busy helping its members fill out applications for the two programs. “We’re going for a second run,” says Dan Fleck, executive director of the association. The off-grid energy systems keep the vessel’s batteries charged, the bilge pumps working, and a heater running when it is berthed at its home port without running the main engine or connecting to shore power. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 17:37

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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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