Marine Fisheries Center’s first meeting discusses fishing yields in Ocean Springs Mississippi

June 22, 2013 Gulf of Mexico, National

OCEAN SPRINGS — The newly funded Science Center for Marine Fisheries’ first meeting began Friday and continues today at the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Center’s Cedar Point teaching site in Ocean Springs. Members of the new group, which includes business and federal partners, pay $25,000 to $50,000 a year to support it and serve on the Industry Advisory Board. The board assesses proposals for funding of biological research intended to solve scientific problems that limit sustainable fisheries. [email protected]

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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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