Thanks to NOAA Fisheries, two New England trawlers have something to do this summer instead of being tied up at the dock because there’s no fishing quota left. NOAA spokeswoman Teri Frady said the Mary K out of New Bedford and the Yankee Pride out of Point Judith, R.I. were to leave Thursday on a 12-day yellowtail flounder stock assessment mission, set up by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. more@southcoasttoday
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
This is, by far, the poorest article ever written by Steve Urbon.