Floating gear a go for now in offshore Provincetown-Truro shellfish grants

December 7, 2013 New England

Fishermen who already hold grants in the Aquaculture Development Area in Provincetown and Truro may be as happy as clams with a recent decision by a state agency that allows them to use floating aquaculture gear — but those who want a lease and don’t have one are going to have to wait. “While the [state] Division of Marine Fisheries has longstanding concerns about the potential for whale and turtle entanglement in the ADA, we feel there would be public benefits to allow the controlled development of the use of ‘OysterGro’ devices in the water column in a ‘pilot program,’” Paul Diodati, of the DMF, wrote in a letter to Tony Jackett, who serves as Provincetown’s shellfish warden and Truro’s shellfish constable. “Given our concerns about the potential for entanglements of endangered species, DMF staff will work through you to develop safe, reasonable and effective permit conditions for these operations.” [email protected] 10:13

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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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