Food of the future: can ‘Frankenfish’ survive politics?
“I have no doubt the FDA will approve a genetically modified animal at some point,” says Kakha Bendukidze, the largest shareholder in AquaBounty Technologies, [email protected]
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
-
Recent Posts
-
North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update – August 1, 2014
-
Punitive New Rules Will Crush CA Dungeness Crab Fishing Families, Threaten Holiday Crab Traditions
-
Hancock Lobster Co. owner’s seafood empire gaining national notoriety
-
Politics-Minded Enviro Group sets its gun sights on Congressman Steve Southerland, its “Ocean Enemy #1”
-
14 Stocks Reviewed, 2019 Northeast Groundfish Operational Assessment Report is Available
-
Georgia Fight over fish now awaits a signature
-
Coastal lawmaker wants to create fish farming industry in North Carolina waters
-
Labrador shrimp fishery seeing boon from rising ocean temperatures
-
Seals and Sealing Network Geneva Bound – seal hunt is sustainable, humane and necessary
-
On Mothers Day – A mother’s cry for help while she tries to save her son…
-
Sonoma takes unexpected stand on Drakes Bay Oyster Co. following former Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s order to close the farm
-
Global Cooling? Stronger-Than-Expected La Niña May Be Brewing
-
The lobster wars are over. We won
-
Inshore shrimp harvesters, plant workers worried about 2018
-
Canada: Atlantic bluefin tuna not listed as an endangered species
-
Public Listening Session at the New England Fishery Management Council Meeting: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 – 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. Radisson Hotel Plymouth Harbor, Plymouth, MA
-
Editorial: Latest cod limits reiterates need for assessment changes
-
This is the ninty second year of St. Peter Fiesta in Gloucester, Massachusetts! June 25-30, 2019
-
N.H. senators speak out against fishing regulations – reintroducing legislation called the Saving Fishing Jobs Act
-
35,000 walrus come ashore in northwest Alaska
-
More than 15 fishing boats rush to aid P.E.I. lobster fisherman whose boat caught fire 3 km offshore
-
Scallop fishermen will be able to catch more next year
-
Secretary of Defense/former CIA Director backed MLPA Initiative-Leon Panetta: from marine ‘protector’ to whale killer-Dan Bacher
-
NCFA Weekly Update for October 24, 2014
-
Third phase of BP trial to establish environmental penalties opens with graphic reminders
-
Leave a Reply