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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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NEFMC to ask Congress in its rewrite of the Magnuson-Stevens Act to establish a certification program for seafood
The council voted 16-0 at the end of its three day meeting in Mystic, Conn., to ask Congress to include in its rewrite of the Magnuson-Stevens Read More » -
Angry, Breton fishermen on strike!
It would seem that it is not only Uk fishermen that are troubled by the position they find themselves in with regard to quotas, increasingly demanding Read More » -
Do YOU want to know where your seafood is from in a restaurant? – Please sign the petition.
Louisiana HB 335 Is about mandating restaurants to label country of origin on their menus, boards and signs with no exemptions. This a health concern for Read More » -
Harvesters Warn of ‘Dire Effects’ as Minister Aims to Protect Fish Stocks from Climate Disruption
A recent appearance by Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray at an industry annual meeting has set off a sea squall of controversy, with harvesters and unions warning Read More » -
Commercial Lobster diver caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off Provincetown Friday morning
A commercial lobster diver was seriously injured Friday morning when he was caught in the mouth of a humpback whale feeding off Race Point, his sister said. Michael Packard, Read More » -
The New England Fishery Management Coucil will meet in Mystic CT. April 18 thru 20, 2017
The New England Fishery Management Council will be meeting in Mystic CT at the Hilton Hotel. To read the final agenda, click here Register click here to listen live via Read More » -
Lobster Claw in Process Of Growing Another Lobster Claw Out Of It’s Tip
Strange looking claw thing goin’ on here! Check it out at Good Morning Gloucester Read More » -
Submerged Rock Led to Fishing Vessel Grounding
A captain’s decision to navigate close to shore in an area with uncharted rocks led to the grounding and capsizing of a fishing vessel in Alaska Read More » -
Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Preferred Price List for June 2017 Has Arrived!
Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273 Click here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. – We are Direct to Read More » -
Environmentalism as Religion by Michael Crichton
In 2003 Michael Crichton sent the Ecology industry into a rage by exposing them as a religion. He got away with it because he had both the Read More » -
Snow crab prices plummet in Newfoundland
It wasn’t the news fish harvesters in Newfoundland and Labrador wanted to hear. They’ll get less for their snow crab after today, as the result of Read More » -
Artificial reef building project planned for summer 2014
“It’s like a manmade cave that we are putting on the bottom,” said Bob Martore of DNR. Frank Gibson III with the Beaufort Sportfishing & Diving Read More » -
F/V Madison Kate being towed to New Bedford by USCGC Tahoma – ETA, 08:00 Tuesday
BOSTON — Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, homeported in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, assisted a disabled 90-foot fishing vessel approximately 70 miles east of Chatham, Massachusetts, Monday. Read the rest Read More » -
National Marine Fisheries Service Announces Industry-Funded Monitoring Amendment Public Hearings and Comment Period
The Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery Management Councils have been working on an omnibus amendment to allow for industry-funded monitoring over the past several years. The Read More » -
Something fishy in the quotas?
The clatter reverberated in the refrigerated cold as workers offloaded fish and wheeled full bins into a storage area on Fisherman’s Wharf. The catch was sorted, Read More » -
COVER STORY: ‘Cold Water’ heroes
Forever, it seems to me, a weathered skipper sporting a sou’wester has been our founding industry’s face. But the fishery has evolved a lot since the Read More » -
REMINDER: Public comment on AMENDMENT 2 of Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan
>click here< for information on Southern Flounder Amendment – >click here < to submit Public Comment on Draft Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan Amendment 2 17:33 Read More » -
Letter: Misinformation about the seal hunt abounds – Capt. Wilfred Bartlett, Green Bay South
The snow and ice are here and the termites are coming out of the woodwork — what I call the ill-informed bleeding hearts. I am referring Read More » -
Big Catches, Big Prices cause boat backlog for Nova Scotia fishermen
A booming lobster industry certainly has its ups, but some of the downs are becoming apparent to one fisherman from Kelly’s Cove, N.S., who says he Read More » -
Northeast Fisheries Science Center director steers a new course
It was last Halloween when Jon Hare took over as Science and Research Director for NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole. He was aware Read More » -
Arrests and seizures – DFO releases another 2,500 pounds of lobster into Digby harbor!
Just days after seizing 1,350 pounds of lobster and returning the live fish into the Annapolis Basin on Aug. 26, Fishery officers from Digby made another Read More » -
In praise of those who make our lives more comfortable – John DeMonti
How I take for granted the things that just appear on the store shelf and, increasingly, at my doorstep. It makes me feel sheepish to know Read More » -
COVID-19 saves right whales by sinking cruise ships
Canada created the Shediac ship restricted zone in April 2020 just a couple weeks before Holland America’s Zaandam was scheduled to sail through that zone on a shipping lane used Read More » -
29th Gloucester’s Schooner Festival 2013 – photos by Donna Ardizzoni
It rained briefly on the Parade of Sail. But nothing could dampen the enthusiasm of the skippers and sailors who turned out over the weekend for Read More » -
Washington fish spill ‘a sad case of déjà vu,’ NL-CAR says
Leo White is shining a light on escapes of farmed fish here in Newfoundland after a recent incident at a Cooke Aquaculture site in Washington. White, Read More »
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