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BOEM to Convene Renewable Energy Public Seminars in Rhode Island and Virginia for Offshore Wind Development

January 14, 2013 Mid Atlantic, New England, Offshore Wind/Industrialization

Agency Will Explain Upcoming Auctions for First-EverWind Energy Competitive Lease Sales.

The dates and locations for the public seminars are:

Rhode Island/Massachusetts

Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013

12:30 – 6:00 p.m.

Corless Auditorium, University of Rhode Island Bay Campus

215 South Ferry Road

Narragansett, RI 02882

Virginia

Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013

1:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Perimeter Center, Board Room 4

9960 Maryland Drive

Richmond, VA 23233 Read the notice

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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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