The Lewis H. Story, a replica boat, departs Gloucester on Tuesday to go to Somesville, Maine, on Mount Desert Island, to replicate a journey taken in 1762 by a family from Gloucester. The original boat was built in Essex and the replica was built there, too. With the boat on Monday in Gloucester are Jim Diedrich, on the board of directors of the Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Capt. Fritz Fuller and a crew member, Lincoln Williams.
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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