Ebb & Flow: Fishermen’s curses become work savers
It's the last resort in gillnetting. It's the most labor-intensive (of the fisheries)." Montgomery and crew put in 12-hour days to net and land up to 6,000 pounds of whole skates a trip, many weighing 10 pounds...
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Locally caught fish missing from activist-approved menus
The gleaming cod delivered whole from Paul Mettivier's Debra Ann II to shareholders in the Cape Ann Fresh Catch program were pulled from the ocean just hours earlier and only a few miles from the dock. That would seem to epitomize the ideal of locally h
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Flawed science behind new rules
"We can't drain the pond and count, but the science is compelling." Tom Nies, chief...
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Bycatch: New take on waste bring new threat for fishing industry
The 1994 study, "A Global Assessment of Fisheries Bycatch and Discards," was sponsored by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. The authors included Steve A....
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Letter to the editor: Fix the fishy inside politics before they kill fishing
And let's not forget the newly "discovered" pollock stock, that 500 percent that was lost by NMFS science was created by Days at Sea Management. It was not created by NMFS's voodoo science. Sector misrepresentation of the truth...
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‘Hookers’ heroes to environmentalists, not fellow fishermen
More because of its media profile, political influence and non-fishing initiative, including science projects, consulting work, educational and conservation programs and political lobbying. Less because commercial fishing, especially...
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Resistance on the waterfront
The Environmental Defense Fund itself has touted the opportunities of catch shares for...
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Getting help from the press
Pauly is a longtime prophet of doom for commercial fishing. In a 1998 article he co-authored for Science magazine, Pauly predicted that rapacious commercial fishermen would work their way down the marine food chain — eliminating...
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‘Green’ activists take the wheel
It's a fisheries management plan that gives an individual fisherman or fishing cooperative a share of the total allowable catch of a certain...
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Editorial: After Fiesta: A time to renew demands for fed fishing changes
Mayor Carolyn Kirk has committed the city to joining in a federal lawsuit challenging the latest regulatory changes and tight...
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