Santa makes early visit to Rockport

December 4, 2022 New England

Santa and Mrs Claus didn’t let brisk winds and threatening rain stop them from making an early visit to Rockport on Saturday. The couple arrived aboard the lobster boat William G. Drohan at T Wharf on Rockport Harbor after a ride across Sandy Bay. Santa and Mrs. Claus were accompanied by a crowd down T Wharf and Broadway to the First Baptist Church, led by a Rockport Forest Fire Truck and the local Cub, Boy and Girl Scouts. There, he posed for photos with children, and checked in to see if they were naughty or nice. >click to read< and enjoy 13 photos! Merry Christmas, Santa! 20:17

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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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