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Boston Grows Camaraderie, Provides Insight into the Global Seafood Market for Young Fishermen

Boston Grows Camaraderie, Provides Insight into the Global Seafood Market for Young Fishermen

If you were traveling with eleven young fishermen from more than eight different communities of Alaska, and each had diverse backgrounds in fishing and family, what would you expect to get from a trip like this? We’re young, many of us already a generational fisherman, choosing to live just like our mothers and fathers and […]

Busted in New England

Busted in New England

Undercover Sting Shows Us Why We Need Better Monitoring of the Fleet Generally, I try my best to avoid writing about New England. Mostly because it’s a train wreck. It’s really the perfect example of what happens when for decades you avoid imposing hard quotas on managed fisheries. Gulf of Maine Cod, the iconic New […]

States Make a Grab for Gulf Fisheries

States Make a Grab for Gulf Fisheries

In the Gulf of Mexico, a small cadre of recreational fishing interests spearheaded by the American Sportfishing Association, the Coastal Conservation Association and the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation are continuing their misguided assault against our nation’s public waters and marine fish resources. Suffer no illusions, the ASA, the CCA, and the CSF want to shift federal […]

Unmanaged has No Business in Today’s Fisheries Management

Unmanaged has No Business in Today’s Fisheries Management

The reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation & Management Act that will dictate management of our nation’s fisheries for years to come is currently working its way through Congress. Much of the debate has focused on the effort to add more “flexibility” to rebuilding timelines (although some flexibility already exists in the act). Unfortunately, a […]