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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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Gang Green get’s $3.7M in NOAA fish habitat grants for WA, OR, AK
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Crew member stabbed on Dutch Harbor commercial fishing boat
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Cook Inlet fish wars, APOC receives about 200 complaints primarily from commercial fishermen, reject 198, will hear three
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State closing Juneau’s waters to shrimp fishing July 1
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Coast Guard medevacs fisherman 145 miles east of Cape Cod
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Simple solution could save whales from fishing nets
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“Uncharted Territory” – Marine toxin closes Washington crab season
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