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New Regulations for Whelk and Horseshoe Crabs a Challenge for Commercial Fisheries

December 1, 2021 Mid Atlantic, New England

New state regulations intended to rebuild the whelk and horseshoe crab populations in the Long Island Sound could substantially limit the catches of local fisherman. Davis said that the department had done surveys trawling different areas of the Long Island Sound each year. Asked about the proposed regulations, Bob Guzzo, a commercial fisherman out of Stonington who catches whelk, said he thought the regulations were unnecessary, and that the department shouldn’t be involved in making them. He said that the whelks come and go in cycles. Guzzo said he believed the trawl surveys were inaccurate. >click to read< 14:16

CT DEEP Proposing New Rules For Lobster, Striped Bass, Others – The proposed regulatory changes are intended to address the “depleted state of these ecologically and economically important species in Long Island Sound,” according to DEEP officials. >click to read< 17:02

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Taking the Helm of an American Tradition

January 22, 2014 New England

Southern New England Fishery News did an interview with Kip Files, the Captain appointed by Mystic Seaport to be Master of the Charles W Morgan’s 38th voyage slated for May, 2014. Read the interview at SNEFN on page 25 of the December issue. Click here, scroll down 16:05

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‘Small Dredge Scallop Fleet’ Gained Permits Legally; Key Part to Fishery

January 13, 2014 New England

In a story appearing on the front page of the December issue of the Southern New England Fishery News, review was made as to how and when the Maine small dredge fishery became a part of the main stream sea scallop fishery while still being restricted to its originally approved gear—the small 10 foot Maine scallop dredge. Read [email protected] 07:05

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Ocean Resource Privatization

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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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