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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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N.S. lobster fishermen join P.E.I. price protests – Buyers offering between $3.75 and $4.00, fishermen demand $5.00
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“…fishermen are increasingly putting all their economic eggs into one basket, and that makes them more vulnerable to the ups and downs of fishing”
No Kidding! Really? C’mon man, this is not news! In New England, known for generations as a diverse and nimble multi-species fisheries, this loss of diversity and increased quotient of risk were predicted by fishermen as the unavoidable result of ITQs or Catch shares! And we’ve been shouting out this inevitability in the Northeast ever since former EDF/Pew board member and administrator, then director of NOAA Fisheries, Jane Lubchenco, in 2009 decided to illegally jam in this privatization, monetization, and commoditization ITQ/Catch Shares scam!