Federal Fishery Failure Funding Articles will be consolidated in this post with headlines and links today

January 15, 2014 National, New England

House targets $75M for Fishing Industry – Northeast Regional Office escapes Consolidation Shutdown – Read [email protected] 07:06

Divvying up the money – Declared Fishery Failures from Coast to Coast, and plenty of speculators – Read [email protected] 07:20

Gloucester Daily Times Editorial: Fisheries aid must go directly to our fishermen Read [email protected] 07:36

House allocates $75M in aid to fishermen – Read [email protected] 08:19

Fishery economic disaster aid applauded – Read [email protected] 08:31

Mass. Congressional delegation, governor, applaud fishing disaster relief Read [email protected] 08:46

Mass. fishermen among winners in budget deal – Read [email protected] 12:21

Mass. Fishing Industry Catches Federal Aid Haul Read [email protected] 13:53

Murkowski’s Appropriations Advocacy Reaps Fishery Failure and Tsunami Debris Aid – Read [email protected]

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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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