“Ever since I was a little boy, it was the only thing I wanted to do,” said Manhasset resident Nicholas Marchetti, on the sport that combines his passion and livelihood: fishing. Marchetti’s love affair began more than 15 years ago, when he and his father trawled Manhasset Bay in search of striped bass, bluefish and fluke. Since then, not much else captured his attention. “I wasn’t very into video games.,,,more@manhassetpress 10:03
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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