Illegal Elver Poaching Must End

April 5, 2025 Canada

Rick Perkins, Conservative Candidate for South Shore-St. Margarets, and Clifford Small, Conservative Candidate for Central Newfoundland, issued the following statement today regarding the illegal poaching of the elver fishery: “The return of elvers in the rivers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick has attracted a surge of poachers who descend upon Nova Scotia’s 300 rivers each night, trespassing on private land to illegally harvest. Unregulated fishing not only threatens the safety of residents due to the armed poachers but also jeopardizes scientific research and conservation efforts crucial for maintaining a healthy environment and ensuring the sustainability of this species. The unchecked actions of these poachers could lead to the collapse of the entire eel population. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 15:02

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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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