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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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First of all you have to reject any argument that includes any dialog about “protecting the resource”. That never has and never will be the driving motivation behind any of these user groups that want to place restrictions on other groups. This is all about the money ! Put a high dollar value on a Striper, a Giant Tuna, a Fluke or any other species that swims the ocean and it all comes down to pure greed and how one group, ( in Wolf’s clothing), can screw another group so they can make more money. These part time charter operations and part time commercial rod / reelers are the largest single threat to the true commercial fishing operations, especially when they team up with the “greenies”.