The commercial fishing industry is often overlooked in the annual Sonoma County crop reports, but it was a $14.3 million dollar industry in 2011, nearly all of it from Dungeness crab, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s figures included in the 2012 crop report. The value of the commercial catch in 2001 was $3.1 million. The breakdown and [email protected] 17:34
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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