Brixham family’s plea for help over fisherman’s funeral

October 24, 2022 International, International News

The daughter of a Brixham fisherman whose working life took him to ports all over the West Country has launched an online appeal to raise funds for his funeral. Scott Shay died recently at the age of 50, and his daughter Rio is hoping to raise £1,800 for the funeral and burial. “Dad was from Port Isaac in Cornwall and got into fishing when he was a young teenager. He was a trawlerman until he had a life-changing accident on the boat at sea in 2018. After this, and a long hospital stay in coma, he stayed in Brixham with his beautiful husky Winston. “I really hate to ask for help but realistically I have to.” >click to read<, and please donate if you can.

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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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