North Pacific Fishery Management Council will meet February 4-10, 2019 at the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon

February 6, 2019 North Pacific

February 2019 Council Meets in Portland, Oregon, UPDATE on impacts of the Federal Shutdown on the Council meeting. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will meet February 4-10, 2019 at the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon. The Agenda and Schedule (UPDATED 1/31) are available through the links, as well as a list of review documents and their associated posting dates. Listen online while the meeting is in session.20:06

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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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