http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Environmental_Defense_Fund
http://fisherynation.com/archives/tag/environmental-defense-fund
http://fisherynation.com/archives/tag/conservation-law-foundation
http://fisherynation.com/archives/tag/pew
The Big Green Money Machine – how anti-fishing activists are taking over NOAA http://www.fishtruth.net/
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
It is sad when the fishermen have the boats, the equipment and the EXPENSES and you have a neighbor who doesn’t even know how to swim making decisions. Most people have no idea that the fisherman has to pay lots of money for their commercial licenses by January 1st and the fishing laws for the year are not made until March or April. And the laws can change. Ex this year the Commercial crab season opened November 14th…closed a week later and reopened just before Christmas. The consumer loves crab from early November thru New Years then it drops off. The consumer buys little or none after the new year.. do the math.. not to mention Oregon closed their crab season and those crabbers come to CA to cover their expenses.. so go out and purchase a boat with a commercial crab license then file Bankruptcy 2 years later…c’mon. Do it