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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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PFMC Sets West Coast Salmon Season Dates
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UK Fisheries call for tariffs on Norway, Greenland and Iceland to compensate for access loss of their waters
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Bailouts
The Alaska Congressional delegation is singing praises for a new $100 million bailout of the state’s floundering commercial salmon processing business. In a joint statement from Read More » -
N.C. gill net limits hurt watermen’s livelihoods
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Maine fishermen testing a ‘game-changer’ for protected cod in the Gulf of Maine
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Rhode Island Fishermen Express Concerns About Upcoming Stock Assessments And Fishing Limits
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One important element of RFM is “catch shares”
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Northern Shrimp: Regulators set hearing on shrimp rules
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MLA back in court this month over federal lobstering rules
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Canada sole holdout on United Nations fisheries guidelines
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