Happening Now – Protestors on scene at FFAW building in St. John’s

April 24, 2017 Canada

A large group of fishermen are on the scene the Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW) union offices in St. John’s this morning looking for a meeting, while the police riot squad has assembled nearby in case the gathering turns violent. About 30 fish harvesters are protesting in front of the Fish Food and Allied Workers union office this morning over what they say is a failure to relay their concerns to Ottawa. Shortly after 12:30 p.m., RNC Supt. Joe Boland informed the fishermen that the FFAW is holding a conference call with its executive to determine if they will meet with the fisherman. If so meeting will likely go ahead around 2 p.m. today. click here to read the story 11:30

FFAW building in St. John's, Protestors on scene

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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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