If you are a New England ground fisherman, and you are not paying attention to what’s going on in the Canadian cod issues that are being discussed on the Fisheries Broadcast, you are missing out on a lot of relevant information. It affirms that the cod are not over fished and the only issue is the border the Cod don’t recognize. listen@thefisheriesbroadcast with Jamie Baker. Listen live @4:00 pm, M-F 16:23
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
Credibility, or lack of within the first minutes of the broadcast……so many cod around that it would surprise15th century explorer John Cabot (re: 2:00)? If I want to hear spin without any factual substance, I would listen to a Jay Carney press conference.