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Stephanie Lights is the woman in the wheelhouse: How a hairstylist is carrying on her father’s work in the fishery

November 24, 2019 Canada

Lights hasn’t always hauled pots and emptied bait cans for a living. She started off in a hands-on industry with a lot more glamour. For a dozen or so years, she worked as a busy hairstylist. But, after Lights started a family and had two young children, she found working full-time was a challenge. That’s when her father, Wayne Russell, invited her to join him on board his boat, fishing part-time. Russell had spent his entire working life on the water. Sadly, in July 2018, that’s where he died — he had a heart attack while out fishing for capelin. Video, photo’s, >click to read< 08:06

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Inshore harvesters, including a member of FFAW’s inshore council dispute snow crab science

October 18, 2017 Canada

The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) questions why the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans would report poor scientific signs of snow crab when it’s not the full picture of the state of the resource. The results of crab surveys carried out by inshore harvesters won’t be available until December. “The science is only half of the story — inshore harvesters have the other half,” says Ryan Cleary, President of FISH-NL. “This shows the same old disconnect exists between DFO science and what harvesters are reporting on the water. Why does DFO report doom and gloom when all the information is not on the table?” click here to read the press release 09:19

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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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