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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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Bore Head…
I replied to someone with this very comment about remembering D-Day:
“This
is a good day to stop and think about what American and Allied troops
went through seventy years ago on “D DAY”. And thank God you didn’t have
to jump off a landing craft on that beach, and think that they did this
to liberate people they never met.”
My reply:
Yes
it is, a day to give a few moments to reflect on one of the most world
changing battles in human history, the “D-DAY” beach landing.
There
was a story on the radio yesterday of a man who was with the “SCREAMING EAGLES” of the 101st, parachuting down into a hornets nest of NAZI SS….and he said it was literally a “turkey-shoot” for them, as he
remembered descending through what could be described as fireworks
coming up from the ground. How he lived though this day he was asked,
and as he said back, “what could you say, it just wasn’t his time.”
You
can see the black and white videos of our Airborne Corps, a number
making their final jump…. or other news reels taken of and during the landing on the beaches off Normandy….I highly doubt you can truly
understand the terror during the early hours of the engagement, where
the surf line along Omaha was described as “bloody red” and the bodies
of the drowned washing up throughout the day, next to men who were killed as they took their first and last steps along those sandy beaches in France.
Little
is talked about the hardship of the men in the landing crafting heading
towards the beach…… a good number suffering severe sea sickness due
to eating large meals prior to boarding, and then the rough seas that morning they encountered in the English Channel.
How come so many
in this country forget that we have so much because of men like this who would sacrifice themselves in standing up to evil?
There is
the monument of the “Les Braves” on that very beach that marks the day when Americans helped to liberate the world, but when you see the
pictures and videos of the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, it
puts into perspective how many of our troops lost their life on those initial days in liberating as you said, “people they have never met…”
or people some of the would ever know. Children, grand children,,,They were magnificent.
We were blessed, thanks to that brave, unselfish generation that was by far the best this country has ever produced.
I thought of this song today. Hadn’t heard it for a long time. Definitely gives fuel for reflection.
Best regards, Ec.