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Fishermen’s Premium Atlantic Lobster Inc to finance lobster processing plant in Nova Scotia

September 6, 2013 Canada

Fishermen’s Premium Atlantic Lobster company said millions of pounds of Nova Scotia lobster are exported to processing plants in New Brunswick every year and estimates a local lobster processing plant could create 80 jobs. “We could be manufacturing many different lobster products right here in Nova Scotia, creating sustainable economic long-term growth in our province,” said company director and co-founder Alton Smith in a news release. more@undercurrent 13:08

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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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