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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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  • Why are so many white men trying to save the planet without the rest of us?

    Just the other day, the National Wildlife Federation announced its new president – a white male “whiz kid”. Last month, the Climate Reality Project, founded by Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 52′ Steel Day Scalloper, Cummins NT-855 MI

    To review specifications, information, with 36 photos’,>click here< To see all the boats in this series, >click here<. 06:28 Read More »

  • Newfoundland and Labrador crab tie-up ends – Processors agree to pay an additional 17 cents a pound

    The Canadian Press Saturday, April 20, 2013 – 16:02  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – A fisheries union and seafood processors in Newfoundland and Labrador finalized a deal Read More »
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    South Carolina: Multiple people, businesses charged for illegal commercial fish harvest and sales

    James Wooten of Bluffton, Dawson Loper of Bluffton, and David Festerman of Griffen, GA are each facing multiple charges for illegally harvesting and selling flounder, tripletail, Read More »

  • Fire at sea: US Coast Guard rescues two from commercial boat fire near Salish Sea

    The U.S. Coast Guard, Puget Sound Sector rescued two from a life raft after a fire broke out on the commercial boat they were on. On Read More »

  • Minute silences to be held to mark anniversaries of Haut du Mont explosion and trawler tragedy

    Minute silences will be held this week to mark the one-year anniversaries of two tragedies which claimed the lives of 13 people. The government has announced Read More »

  • New York Commercial Fishermen blast new Department of Environmental Conservation report

    Commercial fishing advocates Thursday lambasted a new state report that criticizes New York’s top fisheries regulator.  At a rally beside a commercial fishing trawler in Hampton Read More »

  • Anglo-American pulls out of Pebble Mine project

    One of the two companies seeking to build Alaska’s Pebble mine is dropping out of the project as scrutiny grows over its impact on wild salmon. Read More »

  • Prince William Sound humpy forecast of 67.16 million fish is largest on record!

    State fisheries biologists are forecasting what would be the largest pink salmon run on record into Prince William Sound, with liberal fishing time and area anticipated Read More »

  • Wrecking the Sea Bed with Offshore Wind Part 5

    Finally I would like to bring up a topic nobody is talking about although I suspect it is a topic many involved with this project are Read More »

  • The Case of the Poisoned Fish, by Sidney B. Silverman

    In the mid-1980s, East Hampton’s summer and year-round weekend population was growing rapidly. The demand for water views in particular was enormous, and the seemingly endless Read More »

  • New Bedford fishing boat finds body near Provincetown

    New Bedford fishermen found a human body as they pulled in their nets early Thursday off Provincetown. The gender of the body found in the fishing Read More »

  • Demand for fishery abuse report gains steam. Republican Paul Broun and Senator John Kerry lean harder on Commerce

    The 66-case study, which reportedly runs more than 500 pages, with recommendations by the author — special judicial investigator Charles B. Swartwood III — was submitted Read More »

  • North Sea cod gets MSC certification

    At times during these moratorium years of the northern cod, people in this province have glanced at the North Sea to see how that cod stock Read More »

  • PFMC Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat Review Committee to Hold Meeting Via Webinar, Public Invited to Listen In

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) recently announced two conference calls of its Essential Fish Habitat Review Committee (EFHRC).  Please note, the online webinar is available Read More »
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    Lobster boat sinks 11 miles off Jonesport, crew rescued by good Samaritan Bad Behavior

    A lobster boat sank off the Jonesport coast in Down East Maine on Sunday. “There were two people on board the fishing vessel Overtimer. The boat Read More »
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    NOAA Sector ban suffocating shoreside industry in New Bedford

    The hits keep coming from NOAA’s groundfishing ban with financial losses spreading to business that support New Bedford’s fishing fleet. “No one ever really paid attention Read More »

  • Climate change could be affected by changing phytoplankton – Mridul Thomas MSU

    In the current issue of Science Express, Michigan State University researchers show that by the end of the 21st century, warmer oceans will cause populations of Read More »
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    Maine DMR chief briefs Legislature on whales, bait

    Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher briefed the Legislature’s Marine Resources Committee on the latest news from the lobster bait and whale front. The news Read More »

  • Coast Guard investigating the cause of the collision and sinking of Scallop F/V Last Stand

    The Coast Guard is investigating the cause of an accident that sunk a scallop boat April 28 six miles off Cape May.  The 42-foot scallop boat, Read More »
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    Smart crab fishing – New crabber for Scrabster, Scotland

    Both owner and yard found themselves in new territory as the UK went into lockdown, just as Andrew Watt’s new vivier crabber was about to be Read More »
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    Scottish ministers are contesting a judge’s demand to reconsider a no-trawl scheme

    Lady Poole made the ruling after ministers said that the revisiting the proposed pilot no-trawl scheme “would serve no practical purpose”. She took action after, in Read More »

  • Scientists Eye New Threat to Gulf of Maine Ecosystem: Microplastics.. New?

    An estimated 280 million tons of plastic is produced globally every year. Most of it is not recycled, which means it ends up either in landfills Read More »
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    Coast Guard confirms fisherman found by divers inside vessel in Willapa Bay

    Coast Guard personnel confirm the missing fisherman was found by divers inside the sunken vessel, the Kelli J, prior to it being refloated by contractors in Read More »

  • 42nd East Coast Commercial Fishermen’s & Aquaculture Trade Exposition January 15 – 17, 2016

    January 15 – 17 – Ocean City Convention Center, Ocean City, Maryland – 2016 is shaping up to be a great year for our trade show. We Read More »

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