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Ten-year transformation of Scottish fishing village wins top UK planning award

May 25, 2018 International News

A 10-year plan to regenerate a declining fishing village in Scotland has won the top prize at a prestigious national awards ceremony. The plan for Stromness – which included extensive community input – was awarded the Silver Jubilee Cup, at the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) Awards for Planning Excellence 2018 held in London last night. It also won in the Excellence in Planning for a Successful Economy category. The Awards for Planning Excellence are the most established and respected awards in the UK planning industry. >click to read<20:57

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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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Ten-year transformation of Scottish fishing village wins top UK planning award

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

How did a captain survive? – The mysterious death of 21 men on a Spanish fishing boat

No Ocean Industrialization: Shut coal power plants would be ripe for new generation of small nuclear reactors

Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 40′ Young Brothers Lobster Boat, 650HP Mack E-7 Diesel

Despite Oil Spill, Fishing Off Santa Barbara is Strong – Big hauls of king salmon, shrimp, and urchin are coming in

Fish and Game hopes research initiative will help to better manage king salmon

Scallop fishermen speak out on proposed zoning rules in Ellsworth

State control of red snapper fisheries creates problems – Tom Marvel, owner/operator, F/V Sea Marvel

RI Fishing Industry Looks To Grow Local Demand Amid Changing Regulations

Stuck fishing vessel freed from the ice about 45 nautical miles northeast of Gander

A Fundraiser: Memorial Expenses for Sig and Helen Decker

Grand Bank fisherman launches rebuilt boat

Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, January 25, 2015

Sam Parisi is asking all fishermen to attend the Gloucester Fisheries Commission meeting December 14th

FISH-NL questions whether FFAW retaliating against inshore harvesters of the Great Northern Peninsula for taking union to court

Washington, Oregon delay commercial fishing for spring chinook in the lower Columbia

Ocean sciences: Follow the fish

Coast Guard calls in fishing fleet in preparation for Sandy By ARIEL WITTENBERG southcoasttoday.com

Gulf Nova Scotia Sustainable Fisheries Collaborative Research Society out to net individual N.S. fishermen

A convenient truth: 90% of the tunas are gone! The ENGO battle cry of sensationalism based on a known flawed Myers/Worm analysis.

Kodiak waters remain quiet as fishermen demand higher price for crab

Proposed bill would make offshore wind developers create compensation fund

Wicked Tuna Outer Banks: Tyler says screw you as tension mount!

Ventura Harbor set for dock improvement project

Illegal fish sales net Saskatchewan man fine, ban

Experts: Idaho hatchery built to save salmon is killing them

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