“We don’t condone illegal fishing,” said Chris “Heras. “He’s basically poaching, and that’s very detrimental to any fishery.” Worldwide Seafoods hired Steer as a skipper for their 50-foot fishing vessel, the Pacific Titan, in July 2010 with instructions to fish for tuna.
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
Scott Steer has been a well known poacher for years.What he was convicted of was a small percentage of the illegl fishing he had been doing right up to the day of his sentancing.He has cost honest fisherman money from steeling outside of seasons and creating stress to other fishers knowing he is taking away their livelihoods.Scott is well known by most fishers in his roll of recruiting honest first nations people to help him in his poaching schemes to sell fish and shellfish under native food fishing licences.His penalty was too light for his crimes if anyone deserved the maximum penaltys by law it should of been him