Quota Holds Steady for Red King Crab, Down for Snow Crab

October 10, 2012 North Pacific

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is holding about steady on its quota for Bristol Bay red king crab for the season beginning Oct. 15, while the Bering Sea snow crab quota has dropped. The red king crab allowable harvest is set at 7.85 million pounds, up just slightly over last year’s quota of 7.834 million pounds. Read More http://fnonlinenews.blogspot.com/2012/10/quota-holds-steady-for-red-king-crab.html

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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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