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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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Water is basically a 1000 times denser than Air… A cubic meter of Water weighs a 1000 kg while a cubic meter of Air weights 1.2 kg!!! That’s a significant difference… A smaller Blade can provide a proportionate difference in Water in a Rip Tide or even the Gulf Stream basically Hydro without the Damn or Reservoir…
An Aircraft Carrier or smaller specifically designed Floating Hydrogen Plant could power Boats, Planes, fill Tankers, etc… We will need Hydrogen…. There is an enormous resource… Breaking it down through electrolysis or methane conversion are considerable issues but not impossible… Let’s work smart and not SCREW our Oceans!!!