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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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Coast Guard Medevacs injured mariner from vessel in Kukak Bay, Alaska
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Janet Mills wants Maine carbon-neutral by 2045. What will that take?
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Asian Carp vs. Commercial Fishermen: 2.5M lbs of now out of Illinois
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Hunters demand quota to cull thousands of seals and sea lions to save salmon population along B.C.’s coast
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Wyden, Merkley Secured $2.1 Million in Federal Disaster Recovery for Oregon Fisheries
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ITQ’s – You Thought We Canadians Controlled Our Fisheries? Think Again
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