Booming lobster season being reported in western Nova Scotia – Prices Holding!

December 15, 2015 Canada, New England

How many lobsters can you fit into one pot? A lot apparently. Lockeport lobster buyer Michael Cotter says he hasn’t seen a season like this in the 35 years he has been in the business. “It’s been crazy since day one,” he said. Catches are up. Way up for many boats. The weather also has cooperated in a way that is almost unheard of for the first week of December. “We’ve only had one half-assed storm day so far,” he said. Read the article here 10:42

Booming lobster season, western Nova Scotia

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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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