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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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Fishermen look to White House – John Bullard, NOAA’s Northeast regional administrator based at Gloucester’s Blackburn Industrial Park, scoffed at that idea.
By default and past experience, what slim hope remains to relieve the declared federal fisheries disaster before it consumes the surviving core of the groundfishing fleet Read More » -
Regulators in New England cap river herring catch
The caps proposed Thursday by the New England Fishery Management Council during their meeting on Cape Cod target so-called mid-water trawlers, which catch herring by pulling Read More » -
Report: Sea lions push Willamette River steelhead to brink of extinction
State wildlife officials say wild steelhead in the upper Willamette Basin could go extinct in coming years because of sea lions feasting on the iconic fish at Read More » -
Lobster prices at the wharf hit $18 a pound in Nova Scotia
Low catches, low inventory and strong demand are driving the price increase in lobster fishing areas from Halifax to Digby. “It’s surprising, I don’t think anyone Read More » -
Hundreds of thousands of salmon released in Northern California river die in ‘large mortality’ event
As many as hundreds of thousands of fall-run Chinook salmon died early last week due to suspected gas bubble disease. The fish were released into the 257-mile-long Klamath Read More » -
These guys are pissed! Apalachicola Bay Oystermen rage at possible bay closure
Frustrated over talk Apalachicola Bay might be shut down to oyster harvesting this winter, Franklin County seafood workers angrily confronted the president of their workers association Read More » -
We accompanied a local fishmonger to the new Fulton Fish Market. Here’s what we found
It’s 3 a.m. and I’m standing in the bustling parking lot of the New Fulton Fish Market at Hunt’s Point in the Bronx, New York. I’m Read More » -
Dirty Wind. When public business is done behind closed doors
That’s exactly what was going on last winter, when the Connecticut Port Authority, we now know, was hatching a grand plan, in secret, to drastically remake Read More » -
Coronavirus: export fish price crash – Newlyn boat lands huge trip in debt!
By weight, pollack, which is mainly exported to France and Spain was the most plentiful fish on the market this morning in Newlyn where over 8,000kg Read More » -
Fisherman Leigh Spencer who died in trawler incident identified
A fisherman who died in an incident on a trawler off the coast of Cornwall has been named locally. Leigh Spencer, 50, from Millbrook was fatally Read More » -
Second medevac in three days from fish processing vessel Ocean Phoenix, third in a week keeps it Coast Guard Hot in Cold Bay
Coast Guard 17th District command center watchstanders received a request Sunday morning from the master of the 680-foot fish processing vessel Ocean Phoenix who reported a Read More » -
Darren Byler files Two Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuits Against the Coast Guard and the City of Kodiak for the Illegal Sinking of the M/V Wild Alaskan
The 110’ F/V Shaman a Bering Sea Legend was just recently, intentionally sunk by the City of Kodiak, Alaska. The vessel was purchased in 2006 by Read More » -
Nova Scotia Live Lobster Exports to China Hit a Snag
A recent coronavirus outbreak traced to a market in Beijing is disrupting Canadian live lobster exports to China. New testing measures imposed in at least three Read More » -
Atlantic Highly Migratory Species: Swordfish Landings Update Through September 30, 2013 Sharks through October 18, 2013.
Please see the attached swordfish landings update as of September 30, 2013. For previous swordfish landings updates, click here Shark Landings Update Through October 18, 2013 click here 16:53 Read More » -
Rhode Island PolitiFact Meter Shows The Pew Environment Group “Facts” are MOSTLY FALSE!
“In recent years, menhaden numbers along our coast have plummeted by 90 percent.” Pew Environment Group on Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 in a newspaper advertisement The Read More » -
Well known Maine lobsterman Jason Joyce was featured on the Rob Schmitt Show.
Rob Schmitt Tonight locks in all the late-breaking stories that matter to you and delivers the up-to-the-minute news you need to hear before turning in. Last Read More » -
‘Disaster of a season for us’: Cancellation ripples through California salmon fishery
California’s salmon fishermen are seeking federal disaster aid after getting the word that the 2023 commercial and recreational salmon season has been canceled. It comes as projections Read More » -
NEFMC: Scallops, Council Approves Framework 29 – Whiting, Approves 2018-2020 Specifics; to Send Amendment 22 to Public Hearing
The Council took two actions today related to small-mesh multispecies, which include two stocks of silver hake and offshore hake –collectively known as “whiting” –and two Read More » -
North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for November 22 , 2019
Legislative updates, Bill updates, Calendar, >Click here to read the Weekly Update<, to read all the updates >click here<, for older updates listed as NCFA >click Read More » -
Guest column: Follow the Will of the Voters – Keep the Net Limitation
On May 15, the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee heard yet another legal challenge to the net limitation placed into the state Constitution in Read More » -
Weekend event to challenge wind farm plans up and down shore
Offshore wind power opponents scheduled a waterfront protest starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, with plans for participants to gather on beaches throughout South Jersey. Some have Read More » -
Craving seafood? Check out Westport’s Fresh Catch
The signs are everywhere as you drive into town, everything from oyster farms to fishing vessels offering up the ocean’s bounty with handmade, roadside advertisements. Westport Read More » -
U.S. puts restrictions on Mexican boats over illegal fishing
The U.S. government is putting restrictions on Mexican fishing boats entering U.S. ports over allegations that the Mexican government has failed to prevent illegal fishing in Read More » -
A virus that flourishes in fish farms is now threatening wild populations.
Wild salmon in British Columbia are in trouble. According to one estimate, some populations have dropped by as much as 93 percent since the early 1990s. Read More » -
F/V No Limits Captain Christopher Hutchinson recounts tragedy off Matinicus, “I never thought I would make it,”
Christopher Hutchinson said he and his two crew members were on their way back to the mainland Saturday afternoon after a day of hauling traps when Read More »
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