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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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Menhaden Harvest Increase Approved as Anglers Petition to Close Bay Fishery
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Greenpeace ranks Clover Leaf Seafoods worst in 2013 tuna ranking
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Pew calls for ban on international trade of Pacific Bluefin
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Wicklow widow suing ‘those with an interest in’ fishing boat after husband drowned without life jacket
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Deepwater Wind Opponents of RI Wind Farm Head to Court
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DFO says thousands of illegal shark fins found during Pacific patrol
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Body of Shrimper Reported Missing Pulled From Lake Pontchatrain, Louisiana
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Cape Carteret commission endorses anti-gill net, net ban legislation
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Plea to New NOAA Regional Administrator: Save Us Some Cod
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North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for Oct. 26, 2015
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Take shrimper’s concerns seriously
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