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Coast Guard medevacs 2 fishermen injured from vessel fire off Cape Charles coast

February 9, 2021 Mid Atlantic

The Coast Guard medevaced two fishermen who suffered burns after their vessel (identified as F/V Vixen) caught fire approximately 36 miles east of Fisherman Island, Tuesday. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Virginia Command Center received notification that a vessel caught fire and was spotted roughly 36 miles east of Fisherman Island at approximately 3 p.m. Sector Virginia Command Center watchstanders issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast to which a good samaritan responded, and retrieved the two men from the water after they had abandoned ship due to the vessel fire. >click to read< 23:00

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Search is on for missing F/V Yvonne Michelle fisherman Renee Lopez, 45 miles off Manasquan, NJ

April 9, 2014 Mid Atlantic

MANASQUAN, N.J. — The Coast Guard is searching for a 30-year-old man approximately 45 miles east of Manasquan Inlet Wednesday after he was reported missing from a fishing boat. Missing is Renee Lopez of Newport News, Va. Read more here 21:51

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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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Coast Guard medevacs 2 fishermen injured from vessel fire off Cape Charles coast

Search is on for missing F/V Yvonne Michelle fisherman Renee Lopez, 45 miles off Manasquan, NJ

Ocean Resource Privatization

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

Trump receives recommendation to reopen national monuments to fishing

Maine fisheries experts head to Japan to learn scallop practices, buy machinery

Mount Pleasant to celebrate shrimping season with annual Blessing of the Fleet

Potential Western Atlantic spawning area found for Atlantic bluefin tuna

Paralytic shellfish poison prompts harvesting closure – Affected areas include Mahone Bay, St. Margarets Bay, Terence Bay and Cole Harbour

Seward harbor in need of more upgrading

Body of missing fisherman from Port Norris found in Delaware

Fishing Vessel Engineering – Bearing Failure On Fishing Vessels

Recovery plan underway for fishing vessel abandoned by crew of 46

Maine Scallop Fisherman charged with multiple scallop violations

FISH-NL – Northern Cod – “Why is DFO setting us up to fail?”

How an ex-dockworker turned his passion for lobster into a $40 million business

Massachusetts: New relief fund would buoy lobster industry

New England: Offshore Wind (OSW)Mitigation & Compensation Management Concerns

North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for January 9, 2017

The sound is driving them crazy! The Mystery of the Hummers

Trawler catches fire and sinks during making of documentary about dangers of fishing

Fishermen in Moss Landing being slapped with too many regulations – 27 percent decline of black cod fish since 2006, regulators say

North Carolina Fisheries Association is working on relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Laura in the Gulf

Company launching seafood processing business in Eastport Maine

DFO ordered to improve officer gear to counter threat from ‘criminals’ with firearms

BASE Seafood Auction set to unveil revolutionary software to buoy groundfish industry

Going after the big fish: New union president vows to take on whoever stands in the way of Newfoundland and Labrador fishery

“So far it looks like a good season,” “So far all I’ve heard is good news.” – Chuckie White, President of the Kent County Watermen’s Association

Selling shark fins is now banned in Rhode Island.

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