Town Councilor and lobsterman Ken Lemont

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Kittery celebrates Government Street Wharf replacement

June 26, 2019 New England

Town officials celebrated the completion of the Government Street Wharf replacement project Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The town’s commercial fishing pier in the Foreside recently received a nearly $500,000 facelift. The project, which was awarded to Maritime Construction and Engineering, included replacement of the existing wooden fishing pier, installation of retaining walls and reconstruction of the paved approach to the pier. Photos, >click to read< 12:44

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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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