A crowd of about 50 people gathered along Highway 20 at Van Peer Boatworks Tuesday morning to watch the 56-foot boat, Anita, eased down South Harbor Drive to the boat ramp. According to the boat’s owner, Jay Gillman, the boat was constructed in about 11 months and will be used to fish in Washington and Alaska. more@fortbraggadvocatenews https://www.facebook.com/pages/Van-Peer-Boatworks/406399709440155
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
