Ahead of Bluefin Tuna Meeting, Congress, Industry urge NOAA to support U.S. interests; Scientists call Pew Trust “factsheet” a distortion

June 25, 2013 ENGO, National

WASHINGTON (Saving Seafood) June 25, 2013 — On June 26, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) will convene in Montreal to discuss the stock assessment for Atlantic bluefin tuna. In advance of the meeting, a debate has arisen among marine scientists, environmental groups, and industry stakeholders over the appropriate level of allowable bluefin harvest. This debate revolves around several unresolved scientific questions about the nature of the bluefin stock. How those questions are addressed at the Montreal meeting will impact how the international bluefin quota is set. continued@savingseafood

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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