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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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But in an email, Parkes said there was no conflict. NOAA “examined this in detail,” he said. And although it’s not required, MRAG keeps management of the contracts separate. One management team runs the observer and at-sea monitor programs, while another runs the Moore grant study.
yet another example of the foxes watching the hen house. What a scam.
Andy Rosenberg was a member of the “Working Group” which “researched” and authored the “Oceans of Abundance” paper. The paper advocated “catch shares” or ITQs (with the proviso of full observer coverage). Professor Rosenberg was also part of the Joint Oceans Commission which preceded this paper. This Joint Oceans Commission was (and is) a “joint effort” of the US Oceans Commission and The Pew Oceans Commission. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Ocean_Commission_Initiative)
The “Oceans of Abundance” paper was issued as a primer for the incoming Obama administration and promotes the catch shares
management scheme as an answer to the “fisheries crisis”.
http://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/oceans-of-abundance.pdf
It is written by such fisheries research luminaries as Costello, Lubchenco, Steven Gaines, Andy Rosenberg, and Ellen Pikitch, to name a few. Many of the talking points in this lobbying paper use references from Myers and Worm and Pauly—of working down the food chain and nothing-left-but-jellyfish fame.
The paper (or leaflet is perhaps a better term) when referring to the fisheries is laced with words such as decimated, depleted, destroyed, ruined, emptied, food source in jeopardy etc. The end
notes and the names in the “Working Group” read like a Who’s Who in Ersatz Fisheries Research.
The paper starts out with a display of the “conveners” and funders of this “study” and the hyperbolic text goes downhill from there.
Here the EDF et al lobbyists literally write the fisheries policy for the
new Obama administration. “Oceans of Abundance: Action Agenda for America’s Vital Fishing Future”. Aka the campaign for the selling of catch shares.