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Strong weekend for eastern Cape Breton lobstermen

May 18, 2015 Canada

Warm temperatures, sunny skies and decent prices greeted Cape Breton’s eastern shore fishermen at the wharf during the opening of their annual lobster season. It is a much different scenario than the one that played out two years ago when prices fell as low as $3.25 a pound in some areas. A lobster fisherman of over 40 years, Billy Wadden of Main-a-Dieu spent the morning cleaning up his boat in preparation for the annual blessing of the fleet. Read the rest here 11:58

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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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