A fishing vessel ran aground in Truro Tuesday. The 78 foot F/V Carrabassett, home ported in New Bedford, came ashore in the area of Long Nook Beach. No injuries were reported. The cause of the grounding was under investigation. >click to read<, and enlarge image. 17:42
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
That’s what you get for letting a drugged up idiot run your boats ! Guy should never be on the water period !
It’s also what happens when the industry ruled by the elitist enviroscum that now create the rules and regulations that make it so only huge multi national corporations can get into the industry. If the fleet was owner operated these things would be very few and far between.
It’s only going to get worse. Been saying it for decades.
Prove me wrong.
Only way is to urine test the Captains and crew before they sail. Equipment, Mother Nature and human error lack of sleep will always be a part of the dangers of Commercial Fishing it’s just the way it goes if you’re doh can the job correctly.