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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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any chance we can get you folks to give us a hand up here in alaska,they are giveing away the rights to fish a public resourse to a few as we type,they have many such plans already up here in halibut,scallops,crab,ect…..they claim theese p rograms must be okay cause no one has ever challaged them.however we do not have deep enuf pockets to combat all the coruption at this council thru the courts,we have started a small group,we are (americans for equal access)