Just Take a Trawler and Processor Lobbyist’s Advice – (two-faced messaging?)

July 21, 2013 North Pacific

As reported about Monday’s (July 15) fishery working group meeting, anthropologist Courtney Carothers’ preliminary survey findings showed 77 percent of respondents believing fish privatizations lead to a downturn of the local economy. The National Science Foundation funded study does not support a finding that fisheries would be better managed if they were private rather than public resources.

What saturated the results was a widely held opinion that privatization’s negative effects are hard-hitting on captains and crews. On-board fishermen, participating harvesters, are independent small businesses whose incomes drive regional economic benefits. Ex-vessel prices and crew trip settlement fair incomes are crucial. continued here

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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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