Mayor Jon Mitchell’s State of the City speech was the first topic as New Bedford Light columnist Jack Spillane joined Jim Phillips on WBSM’s Townsquare Sunday.
Tag: Fishing
Posted inEnvironment
New Bedford city councilors look for solution to shellfish bed pollution
Committee on Fisheries wants state to move contaminated quahogs to areas with cleaner waters.
Posted inCommunity Voices / Fishing Crisis
Opinion: It’s time to end the era of billion-dollar ‘sealords’ and heed the fishermen
Congress must listen to the voices that for nearly 30 years have consistently sounded the alarm about management schemes that privatize fishing rights, industrialize the ocean, and undermine our public commons.
Posted inJack Spillane column
What’s worse for the waterfront: Carlos Rafael or the Brenninkmeijer family?
Crew exploitation, corporate dominance of the New Bedford fishery is more remote, less personal than the old waterfront, where the law was skirted and bad guys flourished.
Posted inFishing industry
INVESTIGATION: How foreign private equity hooked New England’s fishing industry
Owned by a billionaire Dutch family, Blue Harvest Fisheries has emerged as a dominant force in the lucrative fishing port of New Bedford. Its business model: benefit from lax antitrust rules and pass costs on to local fishermen.
Posted inFishing industry
Scallopers in New Bedford tell fishery managers they don’t want leasing
“There was a time in this industry when a father owned a boat and he taught his son, and his son was able to rise up … buy and operate his own boat, and you know, those days are gone.” — Tyler Miranda, a New Bedford captain of two scallop boats
Posted inFishing industry
Fishermen sue President Biden over closing marine monument area to commercial fishing
Plaintiff Tim Malley said he invested close to $1 million in purchasing and repairing a New Bedford vessel last year, and estimates up to 30% of his income could come from what he fishes in the Northeast.
Posted inFishing industry
New England council considers leasing proposal for scallop fishery
The New Bedford Port Authority, along with some of the city’s shoreside business and scallop fishermen, according to their attorney, cite concerns that leasing could lead to further consolidation of the fishery to the detriment of smaller fleets and businesses.
Posted inInmigración
Esenciales pero excluidos
Los inmigrantes llevan mariscos a las mesas de Estados Unidos, pero muchos han sido excluidos de las ayudas de la pandemia al igual que sus hijos, que son ciudadanos estadounidenses
Posted inFishing industry
CLF report: Fishing rules need reforms to prevent ‘Codfather Part II’
The problem, according to the Conservation Law Foundation report, came with monitoring. Boat captains were expected to honestly report their catch. Some, like Carlos Rafael, did not.