Two members of an Idaho family are scheduled to appear at the Key West federal courthouse one day apart in September, but the relatives might not be on speaking terms. On July 24, a Key West jury convicted Peter Covino IV, 20, of obstructing justice after he called a Florida Keys fish collector and told him to destroy records of the marine-life firm’s dealings with his uncle, Ammon Covino, 39 @keysnet.com
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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