Big Jazz and Seafood Shindig at Viking Village commercial fish dock in Barnegat Light Saturday!

June 25, 2015 Mid Atlantic

Viking Village will host the seventh annual Jazzy Scallop & Seafood Festival this Saturday, June 27 at the Viking Village commercial fish dock in Barnegat Light. Attendees will get the chance to sample “Viking-fresh” seafood prepared by local restaurants as chefs battle for ballots with their original recipes for the “Best Seafood Dish.” Jazz music will be provided by the local musicians of The Jimmy Merchant Band, who performed at last year’s festival. This multifaceted event/fundraiser will run from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Info, Read the rest here 08:17

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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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