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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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Wow. Someone realizes it’s not the Great Whites. A bounty system would work. It might take a few years but it would work. Seals are a environmental and health Hazard. Would you eat clams our any bottom feeders that come from Chatham. Not me. I wonder y people say to me. But the clams r so sweet. ?????
This is nature. Please rely on experts in this field to learn about the reality, not an ill informed non expert. Contact this agency to learn the facts. The issue re: sharks is not just on Cape Cod
https://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/