Changing food source bodes ill for whales, cod
Friedland believes this connection might help explain why Atlantic cod still remains at low population levels despite nearly 20 years of increasingly harsh fishing regulations. [email protected] 12:59
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
-
Gulf oil spill’s effects still has seafood industry nervous
-
N.C. Marine Patrol names new captain and he sound’s like one of the good guy’s
-
Alaska: Seafood industry faces more uncertainty
-
From the Deckboss
-
Seal meat takes centre stage at Quebec culinary festival
-
Life at sea: Battling the elements for a good living
-
Trump administration readies to lease Atlantic offshore for oil exploration
-
Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK
-
Coast Guard, NOAA seize local boat’s catch
-
A factory fishing trawler is docked in Dutch Harbor with 85 Coronavirus cases. Now it’s headed for Seward.
-
How a diverse band of locals won Beaufort County’s biggest environmental battle
-
In Woods Harbour, the healing begins
-
Shark attacks 13-year-old boy diving for lobster at San Diego County beach
-
Brier Island fisherman Jesse Tudor shows off 17-pound lobster
-
Baby eels are wriggling gold – Maine lawmakers look to ease restrictions on lucrative elver fishery
-
American Golds Seafoods faces $112,500 fine for 2013 oil spill near Anacortes
-
Family business, way of life ‘under attack’ for Cundy’s Harbor wharf
-
Todays Nuttery: Rogue Fishing Ops Call for Enforcement Led by U.S. Navy, a Primary Tenet of Global High Seas Marine Preserve
-
‘I was thinking I will just die there:’ Fishermen caught in Acadian Peninsula storm
-
Fishing Partnership Safety Training Plymouth MA, April 09, 2015
-
Alaska Board of Fisheries changes commercial drift fishing in Cook Inlet
-
Coast Guard medevacs fisherman from F/V Ursula off Port O’Connor, Texas – Video
-
Fukushima Radiation: Govt Launches Web Site Noting Safety of Fishes Around Plant
-
Man-Overboard Transmitter becomes new standard
-
The real reason why you’re suddenly seeing whales in N.J. and N.Y. waters
-
Leave a Reply