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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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Virginia Olsen: People in Maine’s fishing industry are pleading for rational policies, not denying them.
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Mixed Response To State Fisheries Bill
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Ottawa still hasn’t learned to choose science over politics in the cod fishery, says Gerry Byrne
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Vale accused of dumping ‘lethal effluent’ in Labrador Bay
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FISH-NL calls on candidates in federal by-election to take a stand on fishery issues. All responses will be made public.
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F/V Arctic Hunter remains partially submerged near Unalaska, fuel onboard – captain’s blood alcohol content was .086,
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National View: It’s now or never for blue crabs
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Seventh-generation fisherman Carlton Elbridge Joyce of Swans Island, Me. has passed away
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Fishermen and Scientists to collaberate on Trawl Surveys utilizing industry vessels in the Gulf of Maine
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Someone needs to inform Trump and Musk that the infusion of some hormones from discarded drug and other human waste is causing some species of fish to spontaneously “transition”. Let’s see him fix that with an executive order.