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Rescue teams race to sinking fishboat in Georgia Strait, off Vancouver

March 7, 2013 Canada

Coast Guard hovercraft arrived before tugboat operators could deploy their rescue boat – Watch video from CBCnews -British Columbia

VANCOUVER – Two people may be safe after a fishing boat sank off Vancouver, but the incident has reignited debate about marine-rescue response times after the closure of a coast guard station. The rescue on Wednesday morning in the frigid waters of Georgia Strait, off Point Grey, occurred just two weeks after shuttered the Kitsilano Canadian Coast Guard station. Read more

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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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Rescue teams race to sinking fishboat in Georgia Strait, off Vancouver

Ocean Resource Privatization

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

Gold Coast prawn prices ‘highest in 35 years’ ahead of Christmas according to seafood shops

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