tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:25:55 +0000A consideration of "the rest of the story" in fisheries, moderated by Nils Stolpe, a long-time consultant to the commercial fishing industry. This blog is a companion to the website for FishNet USA, a monthly electronic publication that addresses various aspects of fisheries management.http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)Blogger24125CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStoryhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-5594301054843647572Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:25:00 +00002011-12-29T14:25:55.018-05:00In the last week of November Bloomberg Businessweek on the MSNBC website posted an article titled “The Gloucester Fish War – How a small town in Massachusetts destroyed a decade of law enforcement,” by Brendan Borrell. Mr. Borrell’s point seemed to be that something approaching a conspiracy by Gloucester fishing interests, local, state and federal politicians, the Gloucester Daily Times and the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/2B_LfX1HWRo/who-really-destroyed-decade-of-law.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=2B_LfX1HWRo:qhx1bs-lgho:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/2B_LfX1HWRo" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-really-destroyed-decade-of-law.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-5271176804918934360Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:18:00 +00002011-09-07T11:18:36.020-04:00Another idea whose time has come - (A .pdf version will be available via the FishNet USA home page at http://www.fishnet-usa.com) NOTE: Bob Vanasse at SavingSeafood.org and Phil Paleologos at Boston radio station WBSM covered Congressman Jones' legislation on their Saving Seafood Radio show (available at http://www.savingseafood.org/wbsm/WBSM_2011-08-04.html) on August 4. In listening to the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/f4dJKzTeeXI/another-idea-whose-time-has-come.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)2<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=f4dJKzTeeXI:Kwxq7ScoXRc:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/f4dJKzTeeXI" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2011/09/another-idea-whose-time-has-come.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-2813862641633007799Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:57:00 +00002011-08-15T10:58:54.917-04:00(A .pdf version is available via the FishNet USA home page at http://www.fishnet-usa.com) New Jersey freshman Congressman Jon Runyan, along with North Carolina Congressman Walter Jone's and Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, has introduced the “Saving Fishing Jobs Act of 2011.” It is another weapon in the growing arsenal which is being provided by Members of Congress who are intent on http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/3QRDUJm-Eas/saving-fishing-jobs-act-of-2011-whats.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)3<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=3QRDUJm-Eas:tkfQ6LMMHVw:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/3QRDUJm-Eas" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2011/08/saving-fishing-jobs-act-of-2011-whats.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-2227510788075238386Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:22:00 +00002011-07-10T08:22:09.459-04:00Note - I stated below that "previously used Target TACs had been replaced with Annual Catch Limits or ACLs, which are essentially the same measure." This is not quite accurate. In fact, the Target TAC is equivalent to a measure called the Overfishing Limit (OFL), the level of harvest that can't be exceeded without risking being in an overfishing condition (exceeding the natural productive http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/7LHuplA17II/underfishing-in-new-england-have-things.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=7LHuplA17II:CEruQcC7UG8:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/7LHuplA17II" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2011/07/underfishing-in-new-england-have-things.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-5031506996666753428Sat, 28 May 2011 18:03:00 +00002011-05-30T11:18:36.415-04:00(A printable Adobe Acrobat version of this is available here.) “An environment with poor internal controls, a lack of standards, contradictory regulations, and it creates a circumstance that’s ripe for exploitations. It’s what you would see in embezzlement cases, where no one’s watching the store. And if someone’s predisposed to take advantage, they do” (Gloucester mayor Carolyn Kirk in an http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/q0ZcSVfJi7E/when-it-comes-to-noaa-law-enforcement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)4<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=q0ZcSVfJi7E:aTL61cP9s8Y:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/q0ZcSVfJi7E" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2011/05/when-it-comes-to-noaa-law-enforcement.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-3421405209363136187Tue, 10 May 2011 16:57:00 +00002011-05-10T12:57:32.685-04:00but no matter what you call it, the public record isn’t going to change In his latest column in Saltwater Sportsman magazine, New England Fishery Management Council member and chairman of the Council’s Groundfish Committee Rip Cunningham devoted almost a thousand words to refuting the existence of a catch shares “conspiracy” that, he leaned towards thinking, was “a bunch of BS conjured up by http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/tvzW_RjcMp0/call-it-conspiracy-cooperation-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=tvzW_RjcMp0:10HYLoXuJpw:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/tvzW_RjcMp0" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2011/05/call-it-conspiracy-cooperation-or.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-3003457285102078982Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:38:00 +00002011-02-05T15:56:02.025-05:00 The Catch Shares Choo Choo’s Leaving the Station When you hear her whistle blowing, then it’s too late Getting rid of “fishers” is number 1 on her slate Billionaires for competition Controlling how you’re fishin’ Jane Lubechenco’s catch shares program, isn’t it great? (With more apologies to the memory and the art of Glenn Miller) February 2, 2011 What’s the probability of a federal http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/dXLCI3hHcOQ/is-this-future-of-fishing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)4<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=dXLCI3hHcOQ:GPsxnCR4fu4:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/dXLCI3hHcOQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2011/02/is-this-future-of-fishing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-5509838915763710669Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:21:00 +00002011-01-18T15:23:57.372-05:00Just do it! Nils E. Stolpe FishNet USA January 16, 2011 If federal fisheries management policy isn't drastically altered, for a far too large part of the industry all that's in it is economic oblivion for you, your boat and your business. If you participate in, are associated with or dependent upon any kind of fishing and you think that things are moving in the right direction, you’re either http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/-waqKFHNO1Q/stocks-are-rebuilt-thanks-to-your.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)1<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=-waqKFHNO1Q:9lQetyGmf10:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/-waqKFHNO1Q" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2011/01/stocks-are-rebuilt-thanks-to-your.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-7588810720041074454Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:29:00 +00002011-01-05T15:29:15.358-05:00Last year's BP oil spill resulted in one and a half to two and a half million gallons of petroleum products being released into the Gulf of Mexico every day for three months. It was the largest accidental oil spill that has ever been inflicted on any ocean anywhere. It resulted in floating oil slicks and subsurface oil plumes that were hundreds of miles in extent. Exacerbating a horrendous http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/r6CGJdYjAbU/dead-turtles-in-gulf-another-noaa-shell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)3<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=r6CGJdYjAbU:rJWW6X8vnJY:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/r6CGJdYjAbU" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2011/01/dead-turtles-in-gulf-another-noaa-shell.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-4252617057736889298Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:51:00 +00002010-12-24T07:50:32.843-05:00(For a pdf version, go here) The Biggest Lie is that fishermen are inherently incapable of sustainably managing the fisheries they participate in. The sole basis of this belief is The Tragedy of the Commons, an article published in the journal Science by an ecologist, Garrett Hardin, in 1968. Hardin’s article describes the dilemma of hypothetical herders sharing a hypothetical plot of land in http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/d8u2oVEXbmY/do-we-really-need-fisheries-management.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)2<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=d8u2oVEXbmY:cfmRJNXHoWo:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/d8u2oVEXbmY" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/12/do-we-really-need-fisheries-management.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-4266721172542390912Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:39:00 +00002010-10-28T17:36:30.039-04:00the devil is in the details First off, I have to salute Congressman Barney Frank, not just for his unflagging support of the fishing industry in his district and nationally, not just for the central role he has played in getting the Secretary of Commerce to pay attention to the fishermen as well as the fish - something that NOAA head Jane Lubchenco has been unwilling to do - but also for http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/R02quqbYopc/when-considering-secretary-lockes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)4<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=R02quqbYopc:wzaJc8VJx1M:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/R02quqbYopc" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/10/when-considering-secretary-lockes.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-1166855162094592550Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:56:00 +00002010-09-04T07:56:23.282-04:00We have to ask just exactly whose side Ms. Lubchenco and her ex-ENGO bully boys and girls at NOAA and NMFS are on. Obviously, it’s not the fishermen’s. In her year and a half at the helm of NOAA, she’s done less to help and more to harm fishermen than it was conceivable any head of the federal agency in charge of marine fisheries could do before she was annoin… er, appointed to that position. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/BVp9zLB0hj8/fromsummits-symptoms-and-whats-wrong-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)1<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=BVp9zLB0hj8:MUnhUJnHqwo:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/BVp9zLB0hj8" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/09/fromsummits-symptoms-and-whats-wrong-at.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-5977392292182624450Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:47:00 +00002010-08-20T22:47:50.689-04:00If you wish to comment on anything here please identify yourself. If you don't feel strongly enough about your words to publicly stand behind them, I'm certainly not going to feel strongly enough about them to reproduce them here.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/H2fdwCEfAI8/to-anonymous-or-anyone-else-who-wishes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)1<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=H2fdwCEfAI8:cjxzMJImrxw:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/H2fdwCEfAI8" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/08/to-anonymous-or-anyone-else-who-wishes.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-1105542114130996753Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:21:00 +00002010-08-31T15:36:44.067-04:00Fishing industry attorney Stephen Ouellette is seeking bar association and congressional inquiries into the ethics of enforcement and litigation lawyers who, according to a U.S. Inspector General's report, have covered virtually their entire operating expenses — almost $1 million a year — on inflated fines they levy against fishing boats and shoreside businesses. Those who set the level of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/iQ90o-jJgOQ/lawyer-cites-ethics-issues-with-noaa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=iQ90o-jJgOQ:JQsnoVm0ERM:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/iQ90o-jJgOQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/07/lawyer-cites-ethics-issues-with-noaa.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-510623529282157552Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:17:00 +00002010-07-13T11:19:26.627-04:00NOAA is sitting on a large pot of money which was taken from fishermen and other business people through what it’s hard to see as anything but strong-arm tactics. NOAA has also let another large pot of money from those same fishermen be improperly spent without adequate safeguards and/or supervision. But the NOAA leadership seems intent on fixing the corrupt enforcement system that it allowed to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/h_cTyvfPAbE/fisheries-enforcement-scandal-in-noaa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)1<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=h_cTyvfPAbE:V6CxRFUBBKc:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/h_cTyvfPAbE" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/07/fisheries-enforcement-scandal-in-noaa.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-8730670301180096604Sun, 16 May 2010 12:31:00 +00002010-05-16T08:37:19.430-04:00“At the global scale, probably the one thing currently having the most impact (on the oceans) is overfishing and destructive fishing gear” (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration head Jane Lubchenco in an interview on the website Takepart.com on April 7, 2010.) Jane Lubchenco was awarded a Marine Fellowship from the Pew Charitable Trusts in 1992. Since then she has been in the forefronthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/cUR7_VFt3E4/fish-and-oil-noaas-attitude-gap.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=cUR7_VFt3E4:_DUQZnVTOCU:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/cUR7_VFt3E4" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/05/fish-and-oil-noaas-attitude-gap.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-7265946615411344165Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:43:00 +00002010-03-13T14:34:34.285-05:00Wednesday, February 24, 2010 was the day that US fishermen* found their collective voice, and that voice was a roar. And that roar echoed in the halls of Congress. It was the day that two dozen US legislators heard that roar loudly and clearly, and responded unequivocally that they were committed to the cause that brought us all to Washington - to Fix Magnuson Now. The day was a complete successhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/8fovLCHOK-4/fishermen-find-their-voice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)1<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=8fovLCHOK-4:N0CZjgMdpSY:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/8fovLCHOK-4" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/03/fishermen-find-their-voice.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-3487560149366511085Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:47:00 +00002010-02-14T09:54:23.353-05:00Nils StolpeFebruary 13, 2010When you hear the whistle blowin' eight to the barThen you know that fishing heaven’s not very farShovel all the coal inGotta keep it rollin'Woo, woo, Catch Shares there you are(With apologies to the memory and the art of Glenn Miller)First off, a disclaimer of sorts. I am not an opponent of catch shares, limited access privilege programs, individual transferable http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/g7D9oeZtip4/who-needs-research-were-going-to-have.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=g7D9oeZtip4:jzzKbUw7spY:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/g7D9oeZtip4" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/02/who-needs-research-were-going-to-have.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-773699767763806758Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:58:00 +00002010-01-29T23:01:19.572-05:00now presents Investigate, the next in the seriesI can only imagine how much satisfaction hundreds of fishermen and folks from fishing businesses are deriving from the recently released first installment of the US Department of Commerce Inspector General’s report on the scandalously inadequate, unbalanced and inequitable job that NOAA/NMFS has been doing in enforcing fishing regulations, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/RYw_Mw7zy1k/agency-that-brought-us-trawlgate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=RYw_Mw7zy1k:_UzyyC0w7p4:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/RYw_Mw7zy1k" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/01/agency-that-brought-us-trawlgate.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-3319395192227904772Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:28:00 +00002010-01-21T23:01:49.515-05:00From my most recent Another Perspective column:In an editorial this morning the Globe bemoaned the fact that the New England Fishery Management Council will reconsider its decision to reduce next year’s sea scallop harvest by almost a quarter; an action that would cost the coastal economies of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia and every other coastal state from North Carolina to Maine hundreds http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/OVGeOnHz-us/even-now-boston-globe-just-doesnt-get.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=OVGeOnHz-us:VUPSB9RRrpg:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/OVGeOnHz-us" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/01/even-now-boston-globe-just-doesnt-get.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-55318917506732891Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:23:00 +00002010-01-13T14:01:27.569-05:00The Save the Summer Flounder Fishery Fund has information on charter bus pickup locations for the February 24 rally in Washington, DC on the website by clicking here. You can also download a printable flyer for the rally at the site.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/nyUHZh8M_d4/for-information-about-february-24-rally.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=nyUHZh8M_d4:ohjN7iWLI18:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/nyUHZh8M_d4" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/01/for-information-about-february-24-rally.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-8121111363203744662Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:03:00 +00002010-01-13T14:05:02.633-05:00and of the ongoing marginalization of fishermen in the management process, you have to ways to protest what's going on. The first of these is to register your dissatisfaction by signing on to a letter to all of the sponsors of the Magnuson Flexibility legislation thanking them for their support and indicating that it is only a start. The letter is linked here. The second is to go to Washington onhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/OHqUlTruoAQ/if-youre-unhappy-with-fisheries.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=OHqUlTruoAQ:WT7BZZ44LsY:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/OHqUlTruoAQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2010/01/if-youre-unhappy-with-fisheries.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21065185.post-8637991136202694270Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:58:00 +00002009-12-28T17:02:08.361-05:00It’s been a long time coming, but it appears as if a critical number of fishermen have finally reached the conclusion that the way things are heading, there’s not going to be an acceptable fishing future for any of us, that it’s time for some long overdue changes, and that the place to effect those changes is in Congress.It’s really difficult to identify all of the major factors responsible for http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~3/lIl5-PG_9Z4/times-they-are-changin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nils Stolpe)0<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?a=lIl5-PG_9Z4:8orCpArH6q8:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommercialFishing-TheRestOfTheStory/~4/lIl5-PG_9Z4" height="1" width="1"/>http://fishnetlite.blogspot.com/2009/12/times-they-are-changin.html