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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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  • Community offers ‘love and support’ to Virginia fisherman run over by girlfriend

    A Northern Neck community is rallying around a local fisherman who remains hospitalized after his romantic partner allegedly ran him over with a vehicle outside the Read More »

  • New Hampshire’s U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta calls for NOAA to stop at-sea monitoring or pay for it

    U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta’s bill would exempt fishermen from having to “comply with the independent, third-party monitoring program” required by the NOAA unless the federal fisheries Read More »

  • The time Rod Stewart came to town, and then threw us under the bus

    If anyone should know the value of a seal coat, it’s Rod Stewart. Sure, he had a first-hand viewing of thousands of froze-to-death Newfoundlanders huddled together in July Read More »

  • The Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia campaign aims to keep fishermen afloat

    The Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia has taken matters in hand, literally, with a new campaign aimed at encouraging fishermen to wear personal flotation devices Read More »
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    California – Commercial Dungeness Crab Season to Close Statewide April 15

    California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Director Charlton H. Bonham issued a declaration to close the commercial Dungeness crab fishery statewide at 11:59 p.m. on Read More »
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    The $200 million lobster season is underway in Quebec

    The lobster season is underway in Quebec, starting with Saturday’s launch in the Gaspé Peninsula. “For the past 11 years, lobsters caught near the coasts of Read More »
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    Why New England Aquarium is fighting back against the Trump administration

    Decades of work at the New England Aquarium went into securing special protected status for an area of underwater canyons and mountains off Cape Cod.,, During Read More »
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    A memory of the Fishing Vessel Patricia Marie in Provincetown

    An error in the Banner brought Provincetown resident Joan Cordeiro to our doorstep on Friday. Her handwritten note pointed out the inaccurate description of what was Read More »
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    Plymouth-based Manomet Inc. tests hard-shell clams for replenishing Gulf of Maine fisheries

    When Maine’s shellfish farmers had questions, they turned to Manomet Inc. for answers. The environmental science organization in Plymouth is helping the industry find solutions to Read More »

  • Will Reviving the Cod Industry Doom It Yet Again?

    It’s been thirty-two years since the federal government first closed the northern cod fishery. It was historically the colony’s main trade for centuries, but that changed, Read More »

  • WDFW Regional Director Guy Norman gets an earful

    WDFW Regional Director Guy Norman visited the county board of commissioners to discuss land acquisition and other issues and heard lots of input, with harshest criticism directed Read More »
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    Bernadette Jordan says harvesters have requested delays, and resists calls to shut down lobster fishery

    The federal fisheries minister is resisting calls to close the Atlantic Canadian lobster fishery down completely this year in response to COVID-19. The pandemic shut down Read More »

  • 2nd body recovered, 3rd fisherman still missing in Newfoundland’s Placentia Bay

    Three fishermen were reported overdue Tuesday evening, according to a person involved in the search. The body of one of the men was located early Wednesday Read More »

  • Happy Anniversary to Vital Ocean Policy – Andreas Merkl – President and CEO of Ocean Conservancy

    This policy directly addresses the key challenge of our time:  how to meet the enormous resource demands of a rapidly growing global population without destroying the Read More »

  • State legislators call on Brown to declare crab fishery disaster

    A group of nine California legislators sent a bipartisan letter to Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday calling for him to declare a crab fishery disaster in Read More »
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    Whole Foods to stop selling Gulf of Maine lobster

    The Marine Stewardship Council suspended the certification of sustainability for the fishery last week, citing a failure to comply with laws meant to protect the North Read More »

  • Freeing sales of lobster tails – State bill would open door to local sales

    Massachusetts’ boats in 2011 landed nearly 14 million pounds of lobster. While that’s a fraction of the 105 million pounds landed by boats in Maine, which Read More »
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    One Fisherman is Dead and One is Injured in Fishing Boat ‘Incident’ Off UK Coast

    A Coast Guard helicopter from Newquay, Cornwall responded to an emergency incident 50 miles off the coast of the Isles of Scilly along with an RNLI Read More »

  • Blue Wave Seafoods failure puts Nova Scotia taxpayers on the hook – Fish plant filed for bankruptcy after $500K loan

    Nova Scotia taxpayers will find out later today how many millions of dollars they’ll lose in the failure of Blue Wave Seafoods. Company creditors are meeting Read More »

  • Save the Working Waterfront: Fishermen resist as proposals for Portland waterfront projects mount

    A spurt of hotel, office and shopping developments planned for Portland’s waterfront is rekindling concerns that space for fishermen and other traditional marine businesses is disappearing Read More »

  • Lobster price depends on whose plate

    Last week the news was filled with stories about the price of Maine lobster reaching its highest point in 10 years or more. Some trade publications Read More »

  • Geoduck fishery still closed

    The Southeast Alaska Regional Dive Fisheries Association announced Saturday that the geoduck committee met Friday and decided to suspend paralytic shellfish poisoning testing until a March Read More »

  • The Great China Geoduck Ban Mystery

    China’s ban on the importation of bivalves originating from the US West Coast could not have come at a worse time for the commercial producers and Read More »

  • Wastewater Treatment Plants – Why we can’t get our water supply free of drugs.

    Vance Trudeau, a biologist at the University of Ottawa, who has found evidence of “sexual side effects” in goldfish exposed to traces of Prozac in his Read More »
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    Man jailed 47 days for illegal lobsters

    The Gloucester man caught landing 230 illegal lobsters in two separate incidents — 183 in one case, 47 in the other — now is essentially paying Read More »

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