Dr. Larry D. McKinney, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies – EPA Regulation Blamed for Huge ‘Dead Zone’ in Gulf

July 12, 2013 National

The ‘dead zone’ is caused when nitrogen-based fertilizer washes off Midwestern farm fields, and then is washed down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. “We have seen the ‘dead zone’ get bigger as Ethanol is required in our fuels,” he said. McKinney says it’s ironic that the federal agency designated to protect natural resources is directly responsible for killing fish in the Gulf. continued@woai

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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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