Latest move toward gas drilling off Mississippi Coast meets with opposition

September 6, 2013 Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf Restoration Network has asked the Department of Marine Resources to slow down its review of rules made by the Mississippi Development Authority to govern exploration and drilling for gas off the Coast. “This was released on the Friday before the Labor Day weekend and it gives folks just a little over two weeks to comment,” said Raleigh Hoke of the Restoration Network, which is part of the 12 Miles South Coalition. That group is trying to keep any exploration and drilling at least 12 miles south of the barrier islands. more@sunherald 07:21

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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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