Photo Update – Parade of Sail – ‘Gloucester in its glory’

September 2, 2019 New England

Hundreds of onlookers gathered along Stacy Boulevard on Sunday morning to witness a fleet of schooners sail across the Inner Harbor. The Parade of Sail is part of the annual Gloucester Schooner Festival. Throughout Labor Day weekend, the city hosts a series of events that celebrate Cape Ann’s rich boating history. The culmination was the Mayor’s Race on Sunday afternoon, where the festival’s featured schooners face off for the Esperanto Cup, among other prizes. Photo’s. >click to read< 08:23

From Good Morning Gloucester, The Parade of Sail – photo’s by Donna Ardizzoni >click to read< BEAUTIFUL SCENES FROM AROUND THE HARBOR DURING SCHOONER FEST – photo’s by Kim Smith >click to read< 21:05

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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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