FOOD & WATER WATCH: New England Fisheries Can Blame Catch Shares for Revenue Consolidation and Underfunded Stock Surveys
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Washington, D.C.—“Today, the New England Fishery Management Council
takes up a nearly impossible task. Faced with a new, abysmal stock
assessment for cod, the Council will be weighing their obligation to
preserve fish populations for the future against their responsibilities
of managing a healthy fishing industry. Unfortunately, the Council and
the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) have spent the last few
years painting themselves into a corner. By initiating a catch shares
system in New England, the Council and NMFS have restricted their
flexibility to mitigate disasters like the dramatic decline of the cod
population.
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33 Fishing Community Members Say Permit Bank, Giacalone are pluses for Gloucester
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This permit bank is a true local treasure for our fishing community and
related businesses. Its existence has been one of the only positive
things to come to this fishing community in decades.
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JOHN SACKTON: Why New England Cod is a crisis for NOAA Fisheries
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Our science right now may be missing the changing forest by focusing on each individual tree. And that science is certainly suspect when it says that one tree is suddenly 40% smaller than it was three years ago.
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Is MSC certification all it’s cracked up to be?
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30 January, 2012
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The announcement on 17 January that eight major Alaska
salmon processors had decided they didn’t want their Marine Stewardship
Council (MSC) certification to be renewed must have sent shockwaves
through that organization.
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JOHN SACKTON: Sensational cries of 'cartel' in New England miss their target
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Jan 30, 2012 (Seafood.com News) Richard Gaines, the sometimes mercurial writer covering fisheries for the Gloucester Times, stirred up a hornets nest over the weekend with his story on a letter from Pat Kavanagh, owner of K&K fisheries in New Bedford, whose efforts to buy another permit were undercut by Vito Giacalone, the organizer behind the Northeast Seafood Coalition and the Gloucester Permit bank.
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