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Sea Trials Begins for the Second Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel for the Canadian Coast Guard

October 13, 2019 Canada

The future Capt. Jacques Cartier, the second of three Offshore Fisheries Science Vessels (OFSV) to be designed and built by Seaspan at its Vancouver Shipyards (VSY), began sea trials today as scheduled from Seaspan’s Vancouver Drydock where final outfitting, set to work and commissioning has taken place since her launch at VSY in June. >click to read< 10:07

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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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Sea Trials Begins for the Second Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel for the Canadian Coast Guard

Ocean Resource Privatization

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

Recent Posts

Liberal MHA and cabinet minister Derrick Bragg dead at 59

U.S. Dolphin Deaths Rise to 300; Cause Still a Mystery

Shipwrecked Scalloper at Outer Banks set for removal

Alaska’s biggest ever commercial seaweed harvest is happening right now

No excuse for low lobster prices

Harvesters worry their efforts in producing a quality catch will be lost due to delays in grading

N.L. government will help displaced fish plant workers

F/V Nite Owl Sinks in the Gulf – One recovered, four fishermen missing. Coast Guard converges in the area. Fisherman John Robinson safe.

BARBARA DURKIN – Your View: Cape Wind offers only empty promises so far. Spanks the communications manager of National Wildlife Federation

Your View: Groundfish fishery has struggled for generations

The Cohen Report, One Year Later – Advocates wonder if pricy probe into 2009 Fraser River salmon collapse has been washed out.

Coronavirus: Bristol Bay community leaders lay out minimum protocol needed to allow salmon season

PROVINCIAL PROCESSING SYSTEM BROKEN, OUTSIDE BUYERS FOR ALL SPECIES NOW

WCPFC meeting stirs dissatisfaction

2024 Shrimp Season kicks off on the Mississippi Sound

Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, OCT 11, 2015

As Europe reviews its rules on seal products, Canada calls for easing of restrictions

In Depth, Dan Bacher – Former Marine Life Protection Act science co-chair sentenced to 10 months

Animal welfare organizations in B.C. are furious over the stolen teeth from their dead orca

Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Price List for April 3, 2014 has arrived!

Mid Atlantic: Coast Guard urges mariners, beachgoers to prepare for severe weather

Fishermen Who Were Forced to Pay $700 Per Day to Government-Mandated Observers on Their Boats Get Big News from SCOTUS

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has ordered that approximately 800,000 fish at a Gray Aquaculture site in Goblin Bay be destroyed.

Stonington scallop boat crewman remembered for devotion to his daughter

Southeast Alaska winter troll season slow

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