River Tyne to Newcastle on Friday

Tag Archives: River Tyne to Newcastle on Friday

UK fishermen take to the water demanding speedy Brexit

March 16, 2019 International News

NEWCASTLE: Starting off from North Shields, a small town in northeast England that has been a fishermen’s haven since 1225, a dozen ships sailed up the River Tyne to Newcastle on Friday demanding Brexit by March 29. Around 50 fishermen were on board the boats, which were festooned with banners reading “Save Britain’s Fish” and “You’ve Betrayed Us Again” – a day after MPs in Westminster voted in favour of delaying Brexit. The demonstration was to urge the country’s leaders to “ensure we leave on the 29th of March,” the currently scheduled date of departure, according to organisers. It came the day before former UKIP leader Nigel Farage starts out on his March to Leave, from nearby Sunderland to London. >click to read<17:08

Comment

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date
November 2024

M T W T F S S

1 2 3

4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17

18 19 20 21 22 23 24

25 26 27 28 29 30

« Oct

November 2024
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
	1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30

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

Recent Posts
- Wind reps, Ocean City fishermen still far apart – “We’re going to be pushed out,,,
  
  Last week, representatives from US Wind, Director of External Affairs Nancy Sopko, Director of Marine Affairs Ben Cooper and Fisheries Liaison Ron Larsen, briefed the Mid-Atlantic Read More »
- Illegal fishing shuts down Egegik district
  
  In Bristol Bay’s Egegik district, it’s not uncommon to see some boats illegally fishing over the line. But this year seemed particularly bad, according to the Read More »
- Coast Guard suspends search for F/V Queen Ann’s Revenge off Barnegat, NJ.
  
  The Coast Guard has suspended its search for the two-person crew of a fishing boat in distress approximately 40-miles off the coast of Barnegat, New Jersey, Read More »
- Enviro group concerned about decline in capelin abundance in N.L.
  
  A national conservation organization is expressing concerns about what it says is a 70 per cent decline in capelin abundance over the last two years in Read More »
- King Mackerel Gillnet Fishing Closed for Year in S. Florida W. Coast Subzone
  
  NMFS has determined the 551,448-pound commercial quota has been met. With this action, king mackerel commercial gillnet fishing is prohibited in the Gulf of Mexico off Read More »
- Today: North Pacific council pursues halibut bycatch reductions
  
  The action came after public testimony from directed fishers calling for a reduction in bycatch, and an Advisory Panel report that asked for emergency regulations. This Read More »
- Land-based salmon farm on Vancouver Island nears economic viability
  
  North America’s only land-based Atlantic salmon farm battled through technical and equipment issues in 2015, but the operators are edging close to covering production and overhead Read More »
- Skipper rescued by girlfriend on an air mattress after falling overboard off Sitka
  
  A fishing boat reportedly departed Sitka’s Eliason Harbor northbound earlier in the morning, with the skipper at the wheel and the deckhand below asleep. Once clear Read More »
- We thank Ocean Marine Insurance Agency, Inc. for supporting Fisherynation.com Read More »
- Baker: The year that cod could not be sold at any price
  
  In the fishery you can always tell if something is going pretty well because you don’t hear a lot about it, and that was the case Read More »
- “Prince of Whales” threatens lawsuit against Maine Lobstering Union members
  
  Richard Max Strahan has threatened to sue the Maine Lobstering Union (MLU), the Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) and their individual members for damages under the federal Read More »
- F/V Aleutian Storm: Wind and waves claim most of grounded fishing boat near Bodega Bay
  
  No one thought it would happen this fast, but the fate that everyone feared for the once proud Aleutian Storm has come to pass. Stranded on Read More »
- East Hampton wants more info, research, money from Deepwater
  
  Even as Deepwater Wind indicated it was behind on its schedule to file more than a dozen permit applications for its South Fork wind farm, East Read More »
- Two well-known marine survival companies become one as LRSE of Tiverton, RI, buys Landrigan Corporation of Boston
  
  Jim O’Connor got his start in the life raft and survival equipment business in 1978 working for Landrigan Corporation of Boston and on Sept. 1, he Read More »
- Work starts on disputed offshore windmill project
  
  Work began Tuesday on a proposed New Jersey wind power project that’s still very much up in the air. Fishermen’s Energy held a groundbreaking in Atlantic Read More »
- Transportation Safety Board: Culture shift needed to make Canadian fishing industry less deadly
  
  The fishing industry has cost more than 30 Canadian lives since 2000 and must improve its culture of safety, the Transportation Safety Board said as it released Read More »
- By-catch monitoring coming to inshore lobster fishery (some fishermen are pissed!)
  
  For the first time, inshore lobster fishermen in southwest Nova Scotia will have someone looking over their shoulders when they head out to sea later this Read More »
- Tomorrow’s lobsterman, today: a look into the future from Eastport
  
  The dockyard in Eastport is quiet this morning. If we listen closely enough, we can hear the ocean less than a half mile from where we Read More »
- Coast Guard medevacs man 20 miles north of Hatteras, North Carolina
  
  ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Monday night, watchstanders at the Coast Guard Fifth District command center were notified that the 56-year-old crew member was experiencing symptoms of Read More »
- You Don’t See This Everyday
  
  It was a stunning visual – a powerboat sitting on top a J/105 while out on the Chesapeake Bay. This was the result of a violent Read More »
- Clam controversy – There is much at stake, like a lot of jobs.
  
  In June, at the Intershell dock on Commercial Street, owners Monte and Yibing Gao Rome launched their new 55-foot surf clam boat, F/V Bing Bing, amid Read More »
- PHOTOS: Lobster season Dumping Day in Digby
  
  Lobster boats loaded with traps and gear steamed out of Digby Harbour for the 8:45 a.m start of the annual lobster fishing season in the western Read More »
- Keith Sullivan – Leave scarce shrimp to the inshore fishery
  
  The inshore owner-operator northern shrimp fishery, which is confined to the waters adjacent to the northeast coast of Newfoundland and south coast of Labrador, is being Read More »
- Tories ask ethics commissioner to probe fishery bid they say favours Liberal insiders
  
  A Conservative MP is asking the federal ethics commissioner to investigate the bidding process that awarded a lucrative Arctic surf clam license to a group with Read More »
- Con groups disagree with NOAA decision to remove Western Atlantic bluefin from overfished list
  
  The decision by NOAA Fisheries to remove Western Atlantic bluefin tuna is not sitting well with conservationists. Last week, the agency released its Status of U.S. Read More »