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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
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Awesome Underwater Footage of a White Shark Eating a Grey Seal
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Treasured gift gone: Woman loses MMPA prohibited seal skin purse at border
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Eight Projects Selected for S-K Funding – Here we go again! Fisherman get the shaft, thanks to NOAA
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Crab fishing season off to early start on the Acadian Peninsula
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Getting a Jump on the Competition! Two busted for shrimping in closed state waters
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Block Island Wind Farm May Have Killed Young Humpback Whale
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Necropsy finds 5 fish hooks in dolphin in Hawaii
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Press Release: Mid-Atlantic Council Completes 2014-2018 Strategic Plan
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Pseudo Swashbuckler Sea Shepherds to Pay Millions to Japanese Whale Fleet
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