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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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Like many studies of this type the research methods have some pretty obvious flaws. It would be difficult to discern if the underbags were causing mortality in the more compressed condition of the lower trawl as opposed to the raised trawl. (I have participated in this type of research for NOAA’s “Fish Behavior in Trawls.” study.) Since crab have an injury defense that reqhires burying themselves in the mud on the sea floor, retaining them in tanks would inhibit some of their ability to survive.
I wonder if raised bottom sweeps will be as effective as avoiding areas with dense populations of crab. The study I participated in lead to wide spread bottom trawl closure areas that assured the continued health of the crab stock.
Ironically the flat fish trawlers cleaned up all of the old crab gear that was “ghost fishing,” helping the crab survive the early pot fisheries that did not have degradable escape panels.