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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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Contentious – An experimental soft-shell clam farm in Georgetown aims to keep green crabs at bay and enrich diggers.
Marching across the clam flats near the head of Heal Eddy, you notice two things.mFirst, both the seafloor and the sea grass meadows on the shoreline Read More » -
Department of Fisheries and Oceans considers making on-board cameras a must in N.S., P.E.I. tuna fishery
Canada’s DFO is considering making onboard surveillance cameras mandatory in the tuna fishery in northern Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Next week DFO will release Read More » -
Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 36′ Calvin Beal Lobster/Tuna, 350HP Volvo TAMD 73EDC
Specifications, information and 38 photos >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >click here<14:00 Read More » -
Fish farm rejected by Nova Scotia government, risk to wild salmon cited
The province’s Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Sterling Belliveau, said Fisheries and Oceans Canada expressed concern about the salmon farm’s impact on wild salmon in the Read More » -
Hawaii Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement officers find giant illegal fishing net off Oahu
State conservation officers continue to monitor waters off Oahu for large illegal fishing nets after several were confiscated in Kaneohe Bay this summer. more@staradvertizer 09:58 Read More » -
Senator Murkowski demands answers as Interior Dept’s National Park Service is busted for ENGO Intoxication
This is nut’s! The oh so trendy and hip National Park Service is caught policy making under the influence of the controversial Marine Stewardship Council, the Gen Ex Read More » -
Chile purse seine project nominated for conservation award
In October, the Pink-footed Shearwaters begin to arrive on Robinson Crusoe Island, off the coast of Chile. “These [fishing fleets] are fishing in the same areas as Read More » -
Rep. Stephen Goldfinch correct to oppose closing more offshore areas to fishing
Our thanks to state Rep. Stephen Goldfinch for opposing more closed fishing areas in the South Atlantic and particularly off the Grand Strand at the famed Read More » -
Tribal fishermen claim WDFW targeting tribal members in new age of Fish Wars
It’s been more than five years since two Tulalip Tribe members were taken into custody at a marina in Everett; but what led up to that Read More » -
North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for July 24, 2020
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 here<12:02 Read More » -
Gloucester Va. harbor targeted for preservation
Gloucester is “no different than other coastal communities where watermen are forced to move from the coast or are restricted from using traditional access points, causing Read More » -
To the Editor: Tisbury Fishermen harmed by multiplying rules
The shellfish warden and shellfish committee have made it hard for Tisbury commercial fishermen to make a living without being harassed by a new regulation every Read More » -
New measures coming to protect right whales in Gulf of St. Lawrence: LeBlanc
As Canadian officials scramble to determine whether an endangered whale caught in fishing rope off Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula may have freed itself, federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc Read More » -
Innovation in Survival
In simplest terms, when deployed in the water, a life jacket gives the casualty time to survive and reduces time for location and recovery. Flotation is Read More » -
R.I. Clammer Dan Briggs concerned about wastewater plant chlorine killing steamers in Narragansett Bay
Dan Briggs is afraid he’s losing his job. That explains his angry posts to social media this summer. His venting, however, isn’t doing anything to solve Read More » -
Racing the past in Jonesport, Maine: 5 days aboard the world’s fastest lobster boats
The lobstermen who make up this strange party compete all summer long on a race circuit that takes them and their boats to 11 fishing communities Read More » -
Families of missing six cling to hope as wild weather hampers search
Hope is fading of finding six men alive after their trawler capsized, with police saying the likelihood of finding them alive is “not looking real promising”. On Read More » -
Lobster industry rebounds with low dollar and high prices – Lobster exports from Nova Scotia are worth $385M
Nova Scotia’s largest lobster fishery is enjoying a banner season thanks in part to low fuel prices and a low Canadian dollar. Jamie Osborne, a lobster Read More » -
Scottish government accused of colluding with US drug giant over fish farm pesticides scandal
The Scottish Government allowed a US drug company to secretly rubbish a scientific study blaming one of its pesticides for killing wildlife in Scottish sea lochs. Read More » -
Gulf of St. Lawrence Fishing zones closed after North Atlantic right whale sightings
The closures of the nine grids were effective Friday at 5 p.m. Fisheries and Oceans Canada had allowed a 96-hour delay of the grid closures due Read More » -
Coast Guard units coordinate tow of disabled F/V Faith of Tonk near Yaquina Bay, Ore
SEATTLE — The U.S. Coast Guard towed a fishing vessel to safety after the two people aboard reported that the vessel had become disabled more than 15 miles Read More » -
The fishing industry has seen much tragedy on the water in 2013.
“It shows we have an awful lot of work left to do,” said Stewart Franck, the executive director of the Fisheries Safety Association of Nova Scotia. @novanewsnow Read More » -
How a Supreme Court case involving herring fishermen affects the Little Sisters of the Poor
A Supreme Court case being argued this week could have significant implications for a decade-long religious liberty battle fought by the Little Sisters of the Poor. Read More » -
‘In shock’: Coronavirus sidelines Southeast Alaska dive fishermen
The coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 has infected more than 60,000 people, mostly in China. Though there haven’t been any confirmed cases in Alaska yet, Read More » -
Something’s Fishy – The Central Pacific Nation of Kiribati Boasts It Has Created One of the Largest No-Fishing Marine Reserves in the World. Unfortunately, It’s Not True
Meet President Anote Tong of Kiribati, a Central Pacific country of three-dozen postcard-pretty coral atolls that may become uninhabitable some day because global warming is causing ocean Read More »
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