Arctic-Prowler-to-be-Christened-at-Alaska-Ship-and-Drydock
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
-
Coast Guard, partners rescue 14 boaters in active week off Florida’s Suncoast
-
Sparse Fraser River sockeye run is an echo of 2009
-
New South Wales mock share-auction website crashes!
-
Fish crime does not pay: Freeport fisherman Beau Gillis speaks about his heavy sentence
-
If this is you my friend, you are a fisherman. Be proud. Be strong. Be safe.
-
‘The Mortal Sea’: Overfishing not a new problem
-
Openhydro receivership leaves murky waters
-
More uncertainty for Alaskan fishermen, ‘Devastating,’ meager chum salmon returns worry the fishing industry
-
New Port of Garibaldi tenant, Tillamook Bay Seafoods, to sell fresh, canned and frozen local fish and shellfish
-
New Bedford Harbor Development Commission – Request for proposals – Launch Service
-
Ottawa, partners to spend $7-million on Arctic fisheries research
-
“We’re next” – NOAA observers worry lobstermen – informational meeting tonight at 6 at NOAA’s Gloucester facility
-
Remembering Richard M. Gaines March 20, 1944 – June 9, 2013 Gloucester, Massachusetts
-
Fishermen honored for saving man who fell into New Bedford Harbor
-
1st US Offshore Wind Turbine Breaks Before It Even Opened For Business!
-
New Bedford Fishermen Hand out 50 Turkeys to Families in Need
-
Fishing in Gloucester 2016: The year didn’t go swimmingly for industry
-
Mass. AG urges easing of fish limits – request that President Obama “ask” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to institute lesser catch reductions
-
US regulators to vote on removal of four dams on lower Klamath River
-
Storm clouds gather over local crabbing fleet
-
Pink salmon reaching Fraser River in massive numbers, has raised questions about the possible role of controversial Haida experiment
-
Bailouts
-
York, Maine – Residents alarmed as Coast Guard changes foghorns
-
Port Saunders fisherman defiant over remarks he made about the FFAW
-
Christopher Byers, D.C. Air & Seafood Inc., a Maine seafood wholesaler, facing five years in prison and a $250,000 fine in Scallop Poaching Scam
-
Leave a Reply