If you miss the parade, you can still see the boats — three of which are more than a century old — on South Lake Union for a couple of weeks, before they head north for halibut season in Alaska. Despite their age, these boats “are still remarkably suited to the work they do,” said Per Odegaard of Edmonds, owner of the Vansee, which has been in his family since the 1950s. Read more@seattletimes 22:58
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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