Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
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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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North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for December 14, 2015
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Seeing the fleet along Channel Drive in Pt. Pleasant Beach is a pleasant distraction from all the troubling news we encounter daily.
That’s quite the Tree line too. Gantries, Booms, and Outriggers. There’s some serious Steel. Disgustingly, a fading Picture now a days.
You can thank one man’s decision an Executive Order “The Obama Ocean Policy”.