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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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  • AquaBounty GM Salmon Eggs Cleared for Production in Canada

    CANADA – Environment Canada, the agency of the Government of Canada with responsibility for regulating environmental policies and issues, has decided, more@the fishsite  11:06 Read More »

  • Salmon in NY waters have complex natural instincts

    Chinook, or king, salmon are stocked in New York waters. These fish actually are Pacific salmon that are raised in state hatcheries, said Matt Sanderson, a Read More »

  • Sustainable Fishburger Based On Chef Eric Ripert’s Recipe Coming To Hamptons School

    Bonnie Brady, Executive Director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association, is pleased that the project will support the local fishing community. “In the U.S. marketplace Read More »

  • Prince Edward Island Lobster season should be extended, says fisheries minister

    P.E.I. Fisheries Minister Alan McIsaac has written to his federal counterpart, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea, to ask for an extension to the lobster season. Read More »
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    23% of P.E.I. lobster boats inspected by DFO in May blitz violated Fisheries Act

    Thirty-one out of 135 lobster fishing boats inspected in a blitz investigation in P.E.I. were found to be in violation of the Fisheries Act. The Department Read More »
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    CLF says nothing short of an end to directed fishing – Another cut in cod fishing not enough for environmentalists

    Fishing regulators are proposing another cutback to the catch limits for Atlantic cod, but some environmentalists say the move isn’t significant enough to slow the loss Read More »
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    A day late, $30,000 short: Union blames insurer for denying death benefit to fisherman’s family

    Keith Sullivan wants to make one thing clear — it was never his union’s decision to prevent a dead fisherman’s family from receiving benefits. Denying Calvin Tobin’s Read More »

  • Red snapper fishing ‘haves’ are suing the ‘have-nots’

    Several highline commercial red snapper IFQ fishermen (they own maximum shares) filed suit against the National Marine Fisheries Service on June 28. Many of these commercial fishermen Read More »

  • Brown OKs fishing for 240 million to 280 million invasive Lake Tahoe crayfish – Announces Tax Credit Program for Fleet Build UP!

    Officials estimate the lake holds 240 million to 280 million invasive crayfish, a freshwater crustacean that resembles a small lobster. They are a major food source Read More »

  • Marine geoengineering including ocean fertilization to be regulated under amendments to international treaty

    35th Consultative Meeting of Contracting Parties to  the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972 (London Convention) 8th Read More »

  • Washington Rep. Liz Pike Slams Oregon Gov. Kate Brown – Oregon’s decision compromises salmon and integrity

    I applaud our own Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission for its 7-2 vote on Jan. 14 to reach a compromise that has our state moving in Read More »
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    Half Male – Half Female Chesapeake Blue Crab

    This crab, known as a bilateral gynandromorphism, is about 4.5 inches long and is estimated to be in its third year. It has both blue and Read More »
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    Charleston Fishing Families looks to help prepare for Christmas during tough crabbing year

    The Charleston crabbing community in Coos Bay is hit hard yet again, not only with COVID, but with another delay to the start of the season Read More »

  • South Carolina Businessman to lead opposition against Big Oil

    A Murrells Inlet businessman who also makes his home in the inlet is taking on “Big Oil” — and right here on the South Strand. Rich Read More »
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    New Fees at Cape Charles Harbor Hit Hard for Virginia Commercial Watermen

    “We as commercial fishermen feel like we are just kind of systematically being driven out of the harbor,” Scott Wivell said of continually rising harbor rates Read More »

  • BEAUFORT NC Grayden Paul Bridge piling damaged by F/V Alex Marie, Point Pleasant, N.J

    BEAUFORT — A vessel that broke free late Saturday from the dock where it was tied up caused structural damage to the Grayden Paul Bridge beneath the Read More »

  • BP oil spill: methane persisted in sea after microbe cleanup

    As much as half a million tonnes of natural gas, 80 percent of it methane, leaked into the deep sea as a result of the blowout Read More »

  • NC fishermen and their advocates say local festivals should sell local seafood

    We post a lot of articles about local festivals, for the fishermen! If the fishermen are not being served, we will not promote those festivals. We Read More »

  • Regulations have done little to boost cod in Gulf of Maine: Lobster management offers clear direction

    Colonial America’s first true industry, groundfishing, has followed the path of many others. Technology improved as the industrial revolution took hold — it kept improving afterward Read More »
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    Prince Rupert fisherman frustrated by DFO salmon limits, despite millions of fish

    Longtime marine fisherman Howard Gray is frustrated with the federal government’s management of the commercial sockeye harvest around Prince Rupert and afraid it will lead to Read More »

  • RALEIGH NC: Observer funds, JEA clear state legislature

    The legislature is pushing forward with a budget that will create a new fund for an At-Sea Observer Program for commercial fisheries and allow the state Read More »
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    “It has to be tested” – Massachusetts Lobsterman to test ropeless buoy equipment

    Sonar technology used is Australia for southern rock lobster commercial fishing will be tested in July, possibly in Cape Cod Bay, as a method to better Read More »
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    Is the Port of San Francisco trying to put an 80-year-old crab company out of business?

    The Alioto-Lazio Fish Company, opened in the 1940s on San Francisco’s iconic Fisherman’s Wharf, is the last of five fishing businesses started by Tom Lazio. Opened Read More »
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    Canadian iceberg hunter in search of ‘white gold’

    “It’s a very fine piece of ice,” he proclaims. It’s midday and Edward Kean, a Canadian fisherman who now scours the North Atlantic for icebergs that have Read More »

  • FRIENDSHIP, Maine – proposed wind turbine farm off Monhegan Island was met with skepticism and outright opposition

    The presentation was made by representatives of the University of Maine to about 30 people at the Friendship town office. The wind farm would cover an Read More »

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