Canadian lobster will now travel from boat to table, all around the world, bearing its own brand. The Lobster Council of Canada unveiled a marketing campaign on Wednesday, including a new logo designed to help Canuck crustaceans stand out from the competition. Council executive director Geoff Irvine said the brand has been in the works for 11/2 years and is an industry first. Read more here 22:50
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
