On a Pennsylvania farm 70 miles from the ocean, inside a sprawling lab facility built to treat horses and other four-legged animals, scientists are trying to solve this summer’s greatest sea mystery: What is killing the dolphins? [email protected] 17:58
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
My hypothesis on the dolphin deaths is the brown algae bloom that was responsible for the deaths of manatees in the ICW and St. John’s River in the Fl. waters. I read that even after the bloom is gone, the toxin still remains. The bloom also affected the shellfish, sea grass, and the general fish populations in the entire Mosquito Lagoon.