Press Release to Fisherynation.com – Salmon Pandemic in Norway! From: Green Warriors of Norway

April 12, 2013 ENGO

From: Green Warriors of Norway <[email protected]>
Subject: PRESS RELEASE; SALMON pandemic in NORWAY!
Message Body:
The environmental rights activist group, the Green Warriors of Norway (Norges Miljøvernforbund), started 11 April a nationwide campaign aimed at convenience stores that sell sick / infected fish. All grocery stores are targets for action when nearly all farmed salmon sold are ill and / or infected with ISA and / or PD. Complete press release is available here website

SALMON PANDEMIC in NORWAY!

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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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