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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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New Longliner “Northern Leader” to Begin Fishing in August
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Many of us tried to warn the fishing communities about some of the costs of consolidation of ITQs back in the Sablefish and Halibut days. But we were ignored. It was clear to some that the increased resource rentals resulting from consolidation did far more for the banks and the large operators than it did for the distributed fisheries that made Alaska and New England communities sustainable. The 20th century privateers won with the support of neoliberals in Congress, the White House, the Commerce Department and neoliberal economists in Universities like URI and UW.
Much like those captured by the Chicago and Northern Europe schools of economic theories, professors advocated for privatization of public trust assets, including fish and fisheries without concern for the fishemen, fishing families and fishing communities around the USA, North America and eventually, the world, bringing massive profits to the few and devastation to the many. Now, having awakended to the real destruction of hopes for sustainability, even the ‘winners’ are speaking out and calling for a reversal of the ITQ scam. Listen for the whining to begin in earnest if Congress begins to listen to those calling for a restoration of distributive fisheries.