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Jersey Shore Fishing: Change in fluke quota split on the table

October 3, 2014 Mid Atlantic

A possible change in the 60-40 split of the summer flounder quota in favor of commercial interests was one of the many issues up for discussion at Tuesday’s public scoping meeting in Belmar Municipal Court. That issue was number two among those to be considered in development of the Comprehensive Summer Flounder Amendment to the Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Management Plan,, Read the rest here 11:01

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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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Jersey Shore Fishing: Change in fluke quota split on the table

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date

The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

Tug-of-war over salmon on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula may reach fever pitch

Project Fisheye Successfully Accelerates Development of New Underwater Camera

Coast Guard medevacs man, 19, from shrimping boat

Movie Zooms In on Commercial Fishing Dangers, Challenges – free premiere at the Viking Village dockside Saturday Night

Danish fishing communities fear Brexit could sink them

Income bridging desperately needed for harvesters and plant workers without income due to ice

‘Ain’t no hurricane going to stop Joe Patti’s’ – Shrimp boat captains docked behind Joe Patti’s devastated

A Fisherman is dead and 2 Fishermen were rescued after fall overboard from a menhaden fishing vessel

Single-day catch of 1 million sockeye buoys Nushagak fishermen in Bristol Bay

New Chair and Vice-Chair of Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association

Trawler catches fire and sinks during making of documentary about dangers of fishing

Nick McGlashan, ‘Deadliest Catch’ Fisherman Dead at 33

ENGO recommends against consuming lobster over danger to whales

Boothbay Harbor lobstermen report great white shark feasting on whale carcass – Video

Shrimp subsidies in five nations undercutting U.S. prices, importers must pay bonds up to nearly 63 percent to offset – US Commerce

Head of fisheries enforcement didn’t understand laws, trial hears

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Dear Congressman Moulton, about that Bill? HR-200?

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3 Fishermen pulled from water after falling overboard on first day of lobster season

Coast Guard transports pregnant manatee to Florida following rescue in Massachusetts

Habitat: River Herring, key to coastal health, slowly returning to rivers

On the Pipe? The Freaks at EDF that brought you Catch Shares now wants you monitored 100% following THEIR failure!

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