As the Fur Fly’s! Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife: An agency split in two

As the Fur Fly’s! Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife: An agency split in two — twice

December 23, 2014 Pacific

The man who has directed the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for the past six years is stepping down at the end of 2014, and he couldn’t have picked a better time. Or a worse one. ,, One of the department’s most highly decorated investigators started a petition after he retired to remove Anderson and two of the three highest-ranking enforcement officials — one of whom, Cenci, is a defendant in a federal civil-rights lawsuit over allegations from a commercial fishing family that he has harassed them for years. Read the rest here 11:36

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

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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