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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update November 25, 2012

November 25, 2012 New England

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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update

November 18, 2012 New England

“The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.”

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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update October 28, 2012

October 28, 2012 New England

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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update October 21, 2012

October 21, 2012 New England

The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.”

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Rhode Island Fishermens Alliance – Weekly Update.

October 2, 2012 New England

Richard Fuka, President of the RI Fishermen’s Alliance, will moderate a discussion of the plight of RI Fishermen regarding the imposing of federal regulations on the fishing industry on Thursday, October 4 7:30 in the Metz Exhibit Hall at South County Museum. The program includes a viewing of the movie “Truth – Fishing Crisis or Government Mismanagement.”

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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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