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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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What a pathetic joke of a story. I can remember fishing back in the 1970's before the Magnussen Stevens act. There were fleets of foreign boats off our coasts. When populations fell they would target something else or move on. Just as we did. Simple self regulating system. Perfect? No.
But given a choice of what we had then to what we have now with big government strangling everyone I'll take my chances with the foreign fleets.
This whole catch share system is a scam. Designed to fail as it has everywhere else it has been implemented. Please see below. It's detailed and long but it will show the truth instead of this green koolaid whitewash.
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/fish-inc…