The Star-Ledger spent months investigating the sinking of a Cape May-based scallop boat that left six dead and spared just one crew member. This five-chapter series was printed in a 20-page special Sunday Star-Ledger section and will be presented over four days on NJ.com. Read more about how this story was researched. [email protected] EC Newellman provided this pdf version. Thank you, EC
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
Ah, you dug up a story from a few years back. She’s now a winter sea bass hang, and one still wonders why and how she went down. This link is much easier to follow the story of the SINKING OF THE LADY MARY:
http://centennial.journalism.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/93.-LADYMARY-reduced-size.pdf
It’s quite a story, and thought I’d post it for people that never saw it.
Thank you for sending the links!