Representatives from Tetra Tech, a technical engineering firm, and New Hampshire Transmission, the developer exploring the installation of a 55-mile long underwater cable, are poised to meet with lobstermen and fixed-gear fishermen tonight to discuss the plans and impact of a Sonar survey around Cape Ann. continued#gloucesterdailytimes
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
“Local officials with the Gloucester Fisheries Commission as well as the Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association have previously expressed their frustration with the sonar plans; as this is the ideal time to be out setting traps and collecting lobsters.”
Why is it, that this is only the second article about this activity, anywhere, as once again, the Gloucester Daily Times takes the lead, and is the first news source to publicize any information regarding this seemingly sneaky project?
I mean, all of a sudden the survey vessel shows up out of no where, and fixed gear must be moved?
It would appear that if this were planned ahead of time, fixed hear fishermen would already know this activity was tentative, saving them time and fuel to all of a sudden, “Make Way” for the until now, undisclosed activity of a potential player in the offshore wind, and transmission industry?
Somethin’ ain’t passin’ the smell test.