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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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This woman is crackers! – Ocean is being bled dry
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Notice Regarding Loss of Vessel Monitoring Service
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Perpetrators Who Caused the Death of 69 People Were Convicted in the Wreck of a Trawler in the Sea of Okhotsk
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Giving up Chinook Is a Nice Idea but It Will Not Save the Orcas
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NY officers seize undersized lobsters from Price Chopper
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Decision on preliminary injunction on offshore sale in ‘coming days’
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Chesapeake Bay blue crab population grows 35 percent; DNR predicts ‘robust’ season
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Linda Bean says Rockland lobster processing plant has fixed FDA violations
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Fisherman in medical distress rescued from fishing boat off Ucluelet
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Bristol Bay fishery update – Monday July 20, 2015
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New England Fishery Management Council asks NOAA to suspend monitoring
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Stonington fish wholesaler calls on Sen. Blumenthal for help
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Happy Birthday to the U.S Coast Guard – Celebrating 225 Years!
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2 men cited for catching undersized fish
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Abegweit First Nation won’t launch treaty lobster fishery off P.E.I. this year
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‘People helping people’
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Future uncertain for fisheries research centre, five years after inception
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