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Canada and Norway moves in seal case against EU

April 18, 2013 Canada

Norway and Canada have requested the WTO to appoint the members of the dispute settlement panel established to consider EU’s ban on seal products. “For the Norwegian authorities, this issue involves important principles, such as our right to sustainably harvest our living marine resources and to sell products derived from hunting and fishing,” said Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs Lisbeth Berg-Hansen. continued

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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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Canada and Norway moves in seal case against EU

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

Piscine Reo-Virus found in salmon on one fish farm in B.C. but more research needed

Electronic Monitoring Systems Need to be Fishermen Tested and Fishermen Approved – This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini

The secretive and slippery world of glass eel fishing

‘They’re not relevant’: Fisheries union boss says Ryan Cleary desperate for a headline

NEFMC Council Meeting November 17-20, 2015 in Newport, RI. – Live Stream information via Webinar

Linda Bean once hoped to be to lobster what Perdue is to chicken. What happened?

Two bumbling hired thugs arrested for allegedly sinking a lobster boat in trap turf war

In 2020, Climate Science Needs To Hit The Reset Button, Part I

Bycatch symposium underway

Commercial fishing vessel runs aground in Hauraki Gulf, 27 on board

Togue Brawn – The Scallop Evangelist of Maine

Nova Scotia lobster fishermen reject idea of surveillance cameras on boats

For Seafood Landings, Port of Dutch Harbor Retains First Place – Fishermen’s News

Seafood industry visa fix in question after Coronavirus outbreak

Northern shrimp stock plunges off the coast of Labrador

Division of Marine Fisheries is working to minimize disruption and gear conflicts that could be caused by an upcoming sonar survey

Renewables ‘Transition’ Terminated: With Their Subsidies Slashed, the Honeymoon for Wind & Solar is Over

Lobster pound owner fined $100K for offence stemming from DFO sting operation in 2017

West Australian Government accused of basing decision not to reopen commercial shark fishery on politics, not science

National Marine Fisheries Service Accepts Petition to List Thorny Skate under the Endangered Species Act

The Fight Rages On As Byler Inches Closer To A Federal Trial Against The US Coast Guard And City of Kodiak

Rare Hawaiian seal drowns at NOAA-funded fish farm site

FISHBILL-US: Fishermen, Lets unite like never before!

Rusty Brace Defeat’s NOAA Office of Law Enforcement on behalf of Jason and Shane Robinson

Global shrimp prices jump

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