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Coast Guard hoists injured fisherman 60 miles south of Nantucket, Sunday.

March 28, 2021 New England

At approximately 3:30 a.m., Coast Guard District One watchstanders received a notification from the crew of the commercial fishing vessel F/V Furious, home-ported in Stonington, Connecticut, reporting a 41-year-old crewmember who had received a hand injury and requested assistance. A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew launched, and safely hoisted the fisherman at approximately 7 a.m. >click to watch< 15:10

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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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Coast Guard hoists injured fisherman 60 miles south of Nantucket, Sunday.

Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date

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

Recent Posts

Trident’s new fishmeal plant to go online soon in Naknek

EDITORIAL: Menhaden harvest limit actually means something

Fishing panel delays call on catch limits GDT- My Commentary.

First National Fishing Remembrance Day announced

NEFMC Approves Atlantic Herring Amendment 8; Asks NMFS to Set 2019 Catch Limits

Ground search team back to assist in locating missing Island fisherman

National Park Service seeks to ease tensions with Point Reyes farmers

Maine fishing pier damaged in January storms put up for sale

Interview: Nick Tokman, 28, Fisherman. “Deadliest Catch.’ Motivational Speaker.

Bristol Bay Fisheries Report for June 13, 2014

F/V Skar Senior – Norwegian Seafood Company’s New Locally Built 48M Seiner/Trawler

Man killed in Massachusetts shark attack, first since 1936

Video – Two fishermen rescued after their boat sinks off the Cork coast

Western Pacific territories will have a voice in President-elect Donald Trump’s transition.

To our Friends at Home and at Sea, We send our warmest wishes to all on this Thanksgiving Day.

Auction scheduled for lease rights for wind farm, Fishermen seeking to block

Big back-to-back years renew talks of Kodiak Tanner crab protections

The Dead Zone – Nothing Here Gets Out Alive

Animal Planet’s Alaska: Battle on the Bay – 1,800 Captains Battle Nature, the Law and Each Other for the Ultimate Fishing Payday

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Footage of possible illegal fishing activity lost in embarrassing botch-up

Fishermen, regulators disagree over cause of Brunswick fish kill

Here’s why workers are digging Chesapeake Bay blue crabs out of the mud this month

Demonstrations – It’s time for the skullduggery to end. Fight back against attack on inshore shrimp sector

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