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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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  • Tom Dempsey is in Climate Denial. “It wasn’t even the prime driver,”

    Calling for “a national voice for fishermen about climate change,” Dempsey also advocated better regional fisheries management and more control by fishermen in setting goals and Read More »

  • Fox News Reporting: Behind Obama’s Green Agenda Sunday, October 7 at 9 p.m. ET

    Hosted by Bret Baier A Fox News investigation exposes rogue regulators at the EPA and a United  Nations-inspired ‘sustainability’ program that some say aims to dismantle  Read More »
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    The Turbine versus Trawler Dilemma – Offshore wind farms will reduce commercial fishing grounds

    California’s fishing industries are at risk of losing access to some of their fishing grounds as the state’s waters are scouted for the development of offshore Read More »
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    First Nations along Fraser River want sport fishing closed to save at risk species

    So far this season, Guerin said Fisheries and Oceans Canada (known as DFO) limited Musqueam fishers to a few hundred chinook from the river, nowhere near Read More »

  • Quincy legislator Ayers pushes fish farm proposal

    Four granite sewage storage tanks built more than a century ago have sat unused on Moon Island for decades, since Boston built a treatment plant on Read More »

  • Weekend read: Fishing fleet set to reap bumper sockeye harvest – Industry vows to be better prepared for huge Fraser run than it was for 2010’s record returns

    In 2009, B.C. sockeye salmon sales generated just $39.2 million, thanks to the near collapse of that year’s Fraser River sockeye run, A year later, sales Read More »
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    America’s Finest vessel gets 2nd House waiver

    The U.S. House, for a second time, has passed a waiver for the fishing vessel America’s Finest, but a path through the U.S. Senate still remains Read More »
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    Coast Guard medevacs F/V Enterprise crew member off Manasquan Inlet

    A crew member from the F/V Enterprise, a fishing vessel located 50 miles off the Manasquan Inlet on Thursday afternoon, suffered a medical emergency and needed Read More »

  • Book Review – Rough Waters: Our North Pacific Small Fishermen’s Battle

    What it’s about: A commercial fisherman looks at the threats facing West Coast small-boat fishermen, including ecological changes, weak management, and pushback from industrial fishing. As a result, some Read More »

  • Fox News Flub. Its bad enough they said lifeboat, but,,,,,,,,

    We posted three items yesterday about F/V Aleutian Beauty rescuing five F/V Western Venture fishermen from a life raft in the Bering Sea Sunday. We always Read More »

  • Today’s Marine Conservationists Are Climate Deniers – Jay Andersson

    Jay Andersson finds some inconvenient truths about todays corporate backed Marine Conservation Industry. The self-appointed saviors –Read more here in the Guest Writers Column  17:17 Read More »

  • NOAA Ripped and Gutted the Heart and Souls of those seeing no way out of financial ruin – ‘We’ve been left with nothing’

    A few years back, when the feds advised Joe Orlando to increase his number of fishing permits, he invested some $400,000, continuing to follow all the Read More »

  • NOAA Says Its Hot As Ever? A NOAA Whistle Blower Turns The Heat Up On Them!!

    A high-level whistleblower has told this newspaper that America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the Read More »

  • Leading Alaska legislators propose task force to help rescue a seafood industry ‘in a tailspin’

    Russian fish flooding global markets and other economic forces beyond the state’s border have created dire conditions for Alaska’s seafood industry. Now key legislators are seeking Read More »

  • Opinion: Breach the Snake River dams? Only if you want more carbon and more expensive power

    Recently our local papers have been publishing opinion pieces suggesting the possibility or necessity of removing the four lower Snake River dams to protect Idaho salmon Read More »

  • Mayday Mayday: Democratic Control Over Our Fish is Going Down

    Fishermen and the public came to the Council meeting to provide input on the fleet diversity amendment to the New England groundfish Catch Share policy only Read More »
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    Electronic Monitoring: Who Gets to Use Our Oceans?

    Much of the current effort to create coordinated planning for use of our oceans started in 2010, when President Obama issued an executive order that called Read More »

  • Bay of Fundy tidal energy battle heads to court Thursday

    The Nova Scotia government and a company attempting to deploy two tidal turbines in the Bay of Fundy have joined forces to fight a move by a fishermen’s association to Read More »

  • Bringing Your Livelihood to the Table (at that Council Meeting) Makes an Impact

    Fish managers of the North Pacific Council need the boots on deck prospective. Bringing a first hand experience to the table can make a huge impact Read More »
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    “I want to be a fisherman when I grow up.” Being a fisherman is a highly regarded job. Here, it’s a last resort.

    Tom Lambourn is a 24-year-old fisherman based in Newlyn. He comes from proper fishing stock with both parents heavily involved in the fishing industry. Tom also Read More »

  • Change to legal size of lobster imports proposed

    Draft Addendum XXX, an amendment to American lobster regulations, will consider whether new minimum lobster size increases that take effect Jan. 1, 2025, should apply to Read More »

  • NOAA out of touch with scallop grounds, Fred Crabtree, New Bedford

    NOAA is proposing more regulations on the scallop industry, to justify its existence (“Council expected to vote on scallop grounds,” April 23). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Read More »
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    Innovation in Survival

    In simplest terms, when deployed in the water, a life jacket gives the casualty time to survive and reduces time for location and recovery. Flotation is Read More »
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    Commercial southern bluefin tuna fleet battles turbulent La Niña weather and global market

    More than 40 vessels and six spotter planes are involved in the search for large schools of bluefin tuna off the picturesque tourist town of Robe. Read More »

  • CAPE DISAPPOINTMENT – Salvage crews say sunken crab boat F/V Titan, ‘unrecoverable’

    CAPE DISAPPOINTMENT — A fishing vessel that grounded on rocks around A-Jetty and sank near Cape Disappointment with thousands of pounds of Dungeness crab in its Read More »

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