Fish Talk in the News – Friday, August 24th
NOAA has asked Congress to keep the New England Regional Office in Gloucester. A plan by Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland would move the office to Silver Springs, MD, near the NMFS national...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, September 14
Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank on Thursday morning declared a disaster for the New England groundfish fishery’s 2013 season. Assessments indicating that stocks are not rebuilding...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, September 28
At their meeting this week, the New England Fishery management Council took steps to approve a measure that could open current groundfish closures for the 2013 fishing season. The measure, approved...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, March 1
Late last week, NOAA’s Northeast Regional Office proposed measures to increase the monkfish catch as an alternative to declining groundfish stocks. The proposed Emergency Action would suspend...
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New Fishing Season Brings Same Old Bad Ideas
New England’s new fishing season is underway amid heightened concern about the viability of some of the once plentiful fish that helped build the region’s economy. New catch limits for cod, haddock,...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, May 10
A number of industry members, state and federal policymakers, and environmental groups gathered in Washington, DC this week for the third Managing Our Nation’s Fisheries conference. The conference has...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, June 28
For the second week in a row, an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe points out the likely negative consequences of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s lawsuit to raise groundfish...
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Habitat Protection: Council Apparently Unclear on the Concept
Decades of overfishing has driven New England’s iconic Atlantic cod fishery to historically low numbers. How does the New England Fishery Management Council respond? They vote to eliminate nearly 75%...
View ArticleBusiness as usual meets the new normal in New England fisheries
What if the hurricane with the lowest low pressure readings ever seen in human history was barreling toward the East Coast and all we did was debate if it was a category 4 or 5? John Bullard, New...
View ArticleJohn Bullard Expresses Concern to NEFMC
Yesterday, Northeast Regional Administrator John Bullard sent a very strong letter to the New England Fishery Management Council regarding the shortcomings of the Habitat Committee’s recommendations...
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