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Marine researcher joins Vancouver Aquarium two years after losing federal funding

February 19, 2014 Canada

A former government scientist whose marine toxicology program was shut down in 2012 has found a new home for his work at the Vancouver Aquarium. Peter Ross, a leading expert on the effects of ocean pollution on killer whales and other marine mammals, found himself out of a job when the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) cut funding to his Sidney, B.C.-based lab. Read more@globeandmail 09:14

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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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Marine researcher joins Vancouver Aquarium two years after losing federal funding

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

Hurricane Ian Ravages Family Fishing Business Just Before Crab Season

Baytown, Texas – Coast Guard: 3 rescued, 1 missing from Texas shrimp boat

Passamaquoddy tribe working to lift individual elver quotas

Facing a declining lobster industry, whale rules, Blue Hill lobsterman has a Plan B

The New Lobster Frontier! From Britain – This is why you’ll probably be eating American lobster soon.

Salmon advocate and biologist Alexandra Morton Sues DFO for Allegedly Failing to Protect Wild Salmon

Maine shellfish dealer to be sentenced for illegal money transactions related to unauthorized purchases of lobsters

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and City Council Decry ‘Fish Stealing’

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Fluke-catching quota costing fishermen thousands

First elver case against Passamaquoddy fisherman dismissed on technicality

NEWPORT FISHERMEN’S WIVES REBUT COAST GUARD MISINFORMATION

New measures coming to protect right whales in Gulf of St. Lawrence: LeBlanc

Shrinking the Gulf Coast dead zone part 1: Downriver, part 2: Upriver

Sympathy to new state Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife director

Video: Coast Guard set out to rescues 3 people, dog from a capsized fishing vessel offshore Apalachicola, Florida

DFO is defending its decision to grant a temporary license for Icelandic factory freezer trawler to catch and process redfish.

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Positive trends highlighted in fall sockeye market analysis

AMSEA launches ‘Catch Fish. Not COVID’

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The description of the EDF (Experimental Drug Foundation) prescription for Gulf of Alaska trawl fisheries permit holder

Connecticut Congressional Members Urge Lobster Regulators To Consider Impact of New Rules on Lobstermen

Louisiana senators attempting to push through a bill against the import of shrimp with EMS,

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