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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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Marty Stillufsen – Who is to blame? and what to do with the money!
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40 years of change: For fishing industry, the spring of 1976 was the start of a new era
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Turtle Excluder Devices: Public meeting on shrimping regulation gets little feedback
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Deepwater Wind’s political ties helped lift $1.5B green-energy proposal to LIPA finals
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Search continues in St. Anthony area for fishing crew member that fell overboard
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Capsized in the storm: Huddled in a shrimp-box, a fisherman survives
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I Dunno. Maybe that union ain’t a good idea.- Undersized turnout for talk on lobster fishermen’s union
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B.C. salmon fishing industry ask feds to provide disaster relief
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Alaska’s Chinook salmon – Army of researchers tracks chinook decline
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Acoustic monitoring of Atlantic cod reveals clues to spawning behavior – Phys.Org
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Speaking up for small-scale fisheries, Menakhem Ben-Yami
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Kodiak memorial held for lost fisherman
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Search ends for missing fishing crew member 250 kilometres northeast of St. Anthony
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