In his ruling O’Neill cited testimony from biologists who said without additional water the migrating salmon in the Klamath River could become stuck in one place and become susceptible to a parasitic disease like the illness that killed tens of thousands of fish in the Klamath back in 2002. The Trinity flows into the Klamath in Northern California, some 500 miles from Fresno. more@ksfn 06:10
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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