UPDATED: Coast Guard rescues 2, searches for third near Coos Bay, Ore. – Coast Guard locates body of missing woman

October 7, 2013 Pacific

ASTORIA, Ore. — The U.S. Coast Guard rescued two men and their dog and is searching for a 50-year-old woman, Monday, after a fishing vessel ran aground near Coos Bay, Ore., Sunday. The two men and their dog climbed onto the north jetty after the 30-foot wooden-hulled fishing vessel Ruth ran aground on the jetty Monday night. The missing woman was not wearing a survival suit or life jacket at the time of the grounding. more@uscgnews 20:33 Coast Guard locates body of missing woman link 09:36

Coast Guard rescues 2, F/V Ruth, ran aground, searches for third

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

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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