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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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  • NH’s Sen. Ayotte laments cod, haddock fishing limits a Senate commerce subcommittee meeting of Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization

    Sen. Kelly Ayotte expressed frustration at a Senate commerce subcommittee meeting Tuesday about the drastic effects that cod and haddock catch reductions are having on New Read More »
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    A shrimper crashed his boat. Police said they found him with drugs and ready to fight

    Ron Ray Anderson, 39, of Merritt Island, ignored officers’ commands and charged at them with a fist, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Read More »

  • Miss Ally divers nominated for the Nova Scotia Medal of Bravery.

    The four local divers who braved the elements to search the capsized hull of the Miss Ally have been nominated by the Municipality of Barrington for Read More »

  • H.R. 4576, “Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act” Passes Committee Unanimously

    The House Natural Resources Committee has approved by voice vote, Congresswoman Aumua Amata Radewagen’s “Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act,” giving American Samoa a greater say Read More »

  • Connecticut’s fishing fleet facing potentially ‘disastrous’ quota cuts for fluke

    “It’s going to put us out of business,” Stonington fisherman Robert Guzzo, vice president of the Southern New England Fishermen and Lobstermen’s Association, said Wednesday. “I’ve Read More »

  • New trawler/purse seiner vessel for Northern Ireland

    Voyager Fishing Company, based in Northern Ireland, is expanding its fishing capabilities by ordering a new trawler/purse seiner vessel which is scheduled for delivery in August Read More »

  • Bodega Bay Crab Fishermen still in Limbo – Crab disaster will headline Thursday’s Fisheries Hearing

    Jim Kelly reports from the coast that crab were tested clean a couple of weeks ago which was followed up by a dirty test. Spots up Read More »

  • New England Fishery Management Council meeting in Portland, ME June 21- 23, 2016

    The New England Fishery Management Council will be meeting in Portland, Me. at Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring Street, Portland, ME 0410. To read the Read More »

  • 3-Minute Market Insight – Rockfish Market Update: Prices, Inventories, Fresh vs Frozen Markets

    Bad weather kept boats at the docks, drying up both fresh and frozen inventories. The fresh market for Rockfish fillets is 40 cents higher than frozen Read More »
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    Coast Guard reports second operational fatality-free year for Alaska commercial fishing industry

    The Coast Guard 17th District Commercial Fishing Vessel Safety office reported the second fatality-free commercial fishing season in Alaska for the fiscal year 2022. The first fatality-free Read More »

  • FISH-NL calls on C-NLOPB to suspend seismic work in light of potential impact on basis of marine food chain 

    The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) has requested that the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) immediately suspend seismic work  Read More »
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    Brownsville: Shrimp season starts with shrimp boats lacking workers

    The Texas shrimp industry faces an especially daunting challenge this year, a reality echoed in the fierceness of Father Mark Watters’ blessing-of-the-fleet sermon Monday at the Read More »

  • Lobster prices up in New England as season off to slow start

    Prices are high because — the season picks up after the bulk of lobsters shed shells and reach legal harvesting size, and lobstermen said that hasn’t Read More »

  • VIMS professor links sea star die-off to blue crab, lobster diseases – Rising sea temperature, contaminants to blame

    As dramatic videos of the West Coast sea star die-off make the rounds on social media, a Virginia Institute of Marine Science professor has been quietly Read More »
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    World’s largest sea turtle could come off ‘endangered’ list

    An arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has received a petition from a fishing group asking that the Northwest Atlantic Ocean’s leatherback sea turtles Read More »
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    Veteran Nushagak drifter, greenhorn daughter have best season ever

    Longtime Bristol Bay fisherman Hector Sanchez of f/v El Nayar hauled in more salmon than ever this year, and it was his daughter Toni Sanchez’s first Read More »
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    Coast Guard medevacs woman from fishing vessel near Cold Bay, Alaska

    The Coast Guard medevaced a woman from a fishing vessel approximately 101 miles northwest of Cold Bay, Alaska, Sunday. An Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter Read More »
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    A unique educational experience, designed for fishermen, by fishermen

    The Marine Resource Education Program (MREP) offers fishermen, and others with a stake in healthy fisheries, an opportunity to learn the basics of fisheries science and Read More »

  • UMass Dartmouth’s Marine Fisheries Institute Renews Mission with Formation of Advisory Council

    New Bedford, MA (September 18, 2013) –UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST), in partnership with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF), is pleased Read More »
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    Wind Turbine Development and the future of fishing? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet USA

    Let’s start with commercial fishing perspectives on wind farms in the North Sea: Seventeen fishing vessels docked in the centre of Amsterdam, a city that built Read More »

  • Wassup – Fishing boat seized by RCMP major crimes unit in case of missing boater

    An RCMP major crimes unit seized a fishing boat in Petit de Grat on Sunday and questioned the crew in connection with a confrontation on the water Read More »

  • Tampering with our Future – Genetically engineered fish, the FDA and labeling GE/GMO foods, By Anne Mosness

    The thought of experimenting with animals to create new life forms that can be patented, produced in commercial feedlots, and marketed without labeling makes most people Read More »
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    Scientists Level New Critiques of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Scientific Rigor

    Twenty-five years ago, after the collapse of the Atlantic cod fishery, Jeffrey Hutchings, a preeminent fisheries scientist and professor at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, sounded Read More »

  • North Pacific Fishery Management Council Meeting October 6-14, 2014 in Anchorage – Listen online

    NPFMC  will hold its 219th Plenary Session October 6-14, 2014  in Anchorage, Alaska at the Hilton Hotel, 500 W. 3rd Avenue. The AGENDA is available here , Read More »

  • Bycatch spike, meeting spur trawl stand down

    Gulf of Alaska trawlers are flocking to a meeting in Portland, leaving behind a halibut bycatch situation the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is attempting to Read More »

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