Oyster Collapse Gulf of Mexico along Florida’s Big Bend and Panhandle.

October 15, 2012 Gulf of Mexico

State officials have determined there has been an oyster collapse in the Gulf of Mexico along Florida’s Big Bend and Panhandle. They also say that nothing can be done and that it will just have to run its course.

http://fishery.about.com/b/2012/09/30/florida-aquaculture-gets-global-warming.htm?nl=1

dying from Cedar Key west to Apalachicola, fighting a parasite., oyster collapse, too much salt in the water and high temperatures

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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.

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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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