Undercurrent News erects a Paywall

May 7, 2013 Uncategorized

Deciding to make our content paid-for has not been an easy decision — even harder was deciding how to price ourselves. continued Adios!

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Ec Newell Man says:

May 7, 2013 at 5:03 pm

How do they think they are, You Tube, now charging for content? Many very large corporations have moved to a pay-for original content model, and had troubling maintaining views to their website.

They were industry based seafood news portal which I highly doubt had much clicks from fishermen like us. You definitely will not be missed by fire-walling your site Undercurrent….yes really!

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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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