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Ferry rescues 3 fishermen from Cabot Strait after fishing boat fire

September 11, 2018 Canada

Three people are safe after being plucked from the waters of the Cabot Strait Monday night by a Newfoundland-bound ferry after their fishing vessel caught fire and later sank. The captain and two crew of the fishing vessel Sulian, which is owned by We’koqma’q First Nation in Cape Breton, had set out to fish red fish, according to We’koqmaq Chief Rod Googoo. At about 10 p.m., the Canadian military’s rescue co-ordination centre contacted the MV Leif Ericson, a Marine Atlantic Ferry en route from North Sydney, N.S., to Port aux Basques, N.L. >click to read<10:52

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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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