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UNVEILED: The Last Trip is a ‘fitting tribute’ to lost fishermen

December 21, 2015 International News

A new memorial to Hull’s lost fishermen has been unveiled. The Last Trip aims to commemorate the estimated 6,000 men who sailed from Hull’s St Andrew’s Dock but never returned home. The cylindrical feature includes 90 replica ship bows and the names of the job titles onboard different types of trawlers over the years. It was officially unveiled yesterday in a ceremony performed by a number of relatives from fishing families in the city. Read the article, View Video and photo gallery here 08:05

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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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