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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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  • The real reason why you’re suddenly seeing whales in N.J. and N.Y. waters

    Whales. They’ve been seemingly everywhere. Breaching just past the sandbars in Asbury Park. Swimming past groups of surfers in Rockaway Beach. Besides inspiring a chorus of oohs Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 35′ Young Bros. Tuna, 460HP 6 Cylinder Lugger,5 KW Northern Lights Genset

    Specifications, information and 17 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:09 Read More »
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    Island Democrats to help pick House nominee – Both women are lobster boat captains

    There are few contested primaries on the ballot this year but one is the Democratic nomination to represent the House district that includes Vinalhaven and North Read More »
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    FISH-NL elects executive, adopts constitution, and looks to a 2017 certification date

    The process to formalize a breakaway fish harvesters union began at the Albatross Hotel in Gander Thursday morning. “I’ve never seen the unrest as widespread as it Read More »

  • Declining worm harvest poses challenge for diggers, scientists

    It’s a dirty job, but digging for blood and sand worms along the Maine coast can pay well, particularly in areas of the state where it Read More »
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    Five fishermen rescued after boat sinks: ‘God saved us from drowning’

    According to reports, the 55-foot trawler with 350 hp engine, captained by James Kirwan, and owned by Christopher Ragbir, began taking in water around 7pm near Read More »
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    Interior B.C. historical society restoring 90-year-old Japanese-Canadian boat

    The Merriwake fishing boat first hit the water 90 years ago near Prince Rupert, B.C. The gillnetter built by master boat-maker Isamu Matsumoto belonged to a Read More »
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    Fleet of more than 50 fishing cutters protesting in Afsluitdijk against offshore wind farms

    “We want to keep fishing,” says Anja Keuter, a spokeswoman for IJsselmeer fishermen in the Netherlands. Her husband is a fisherman and her three sons want Read More »

  • Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 74′ Steel Scalloper/Dragger, Caterpillar 3412

    To review specifications, information, and 38 photos’,>click here<, To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 08:29 Read More »

  • Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Prefered Price List for September 5, 2014

    Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273  Click here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. where The Only Thing Read More »

  • and in Fisherynation Sports this morning, Team Canada Gets Sochi GOLD!

    The Canadian men’s hockey team took gold on the final day of the 2014 Olympics, defeating Sweden 3-0 in the gold medal game at the Bolshoy Read More »

  • North Carolina Fishermen prepare for hearing on southern flounder fishery

    The North Carolina Fisheries Association, the state’s trade association for the commercial fishing industry, is rallying commercial fishermen to attend the June 17 public hearing to Read More »

  • Steelheaders call for Buckmaster’s removal from fish commission

    In the latest development in the feud between sports anglers and commercial fishermen over the use of gillnets in the lower Columbia River, a sports angling Read More »

  • Fishermen protest marine reserve at Kaupulehu

    KAUPULEHU — The sea is full of fish. Especially on one stretch of North Kona coastline whose closure for 10 years needs only the governor’s signature Read More »

  • Dr. Ray Hilborn Discusses the Status of Federal Fisheries Management

    On Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Dr. Ray Hilborn, of the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, testified before the House Committee on Natural Read More »

  • In New Orleans courts, the legal gusher BP cannot contain

    But the source of much of BP’s ire lies with a legal donnybrook over a settlement designed to compensate individuals and businesses for economic harm caused Read More »

  • Oyster wholesaler’s attempt to privatize over 23,000 acres of Galveston Bay could change who owns the bottom of Texas bays

    At issue is a lease between Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District and , based in Smith Point, which is commonly referred to as STORM. While the two Read More »
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    The phytoplankton decline, is there anything to it?

    We have been told that the phytoplankton population is declining rapidly around the world and, of course, the cause is climate change. Phytoplankton is the base Read More »

  • OPINION: The desk-bound green groups that dictate fishing policy

    Shetland skippers have worked in harmony with the sea for thousands of years; the maritime world in general and fishing in particular are vital to the Read More »
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    Unicorns and Mermaids! Ocean Rebellion in Cornwall call for ban on bottom trawling

    Penryn’s Ocean Rebellion crew claimed to have found a gossip of mermaids entangled in discarded fishing waste. They say the pod had washed up along with Read More »
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    Wind Farm Protesters March in Ocean City

    Opposition to the wind farm has been mounting following more than 30 whale deaths along the East Coast that critics have blamed on sonar mapping of Read More »

  • Divers brave chilly Down East waters for scallops

    EASTPORT, Maine — The sun is rising above Campobello Island as the Shelby Lee and Drusilla L. and a skiff motor their way to the other Read More »

  • Our Views: Gulf of Mexico Dead zone needs attention

    Louisiana — and the nation that depends upon its fisheries — can’t afford anything less. continued@ theadvocate Read More »
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    Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 57′ Single Dredge Steel Scalloper, Ed Gamage built, offers encouraged

    To review specifications, information, and 13 photos, >click here< , To see all the boats in this series >click here<– 10:46 Read More »

  • Tuna: Super Fish

    Athletes of the Sea Let’s clarify one thing up front: Tuna are not ordinary fish. They are athletic freaks of nature, built for raw power, speed Read More »

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