Gloucester – A tight fit. The lobster boat Dominatrix drives between the stern of the herring trawler Western Venture and the Coast Guard station’s large vessel pier. Captain Dean on Dominatrix loaded bait and drove away from the dock with no stern man on board. Hauling lobster gear alone is dangerous but happens often in the lobster industry when crew comes up short. 08:19
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
