No no no. They’ve got it all wrong! – East Coast CEO: US restaurants passing lower lobster prices to consumers

August 26, 2013 Canada, National, New England

Lobster meat is going for reasonable prices to the consumer, particularly as the price of the raw material remains low again this year.Michael Tourkistas, CEO of US lobster firm East Coast Seafoods , is seeing reasonable mark-ups from restaurants. At casual dining restaurants, surf and turf plates are selling for under $15 a plate at restaurants such as Outback Steakhouse. more@undercurrent

CEO of US lobster firm East Coast Seafoods, lower lobster prices to consumers, Michael Tourkistas, US restaurants

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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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