Our view: Fishing disaster’s unseen casualties

October 9, 2013 New England

Anyone visiting the Gloucester waterfront these days can’t help but notice the lack of commercial fishing boat arrivals and departures and the slow pace of commerce in the wake of this year’s government-fueled commercial fishery “disaster.” But they can’t see the dire financial straits confronting Gloucester residents Everett and Jenice Sawyer, whose tale was spotlighted so powerfully in a story (”Fishing crisis’ collateral damage,” Sept. 26) by our sister paper, The Gloucester Daily Times, on the plight of longtime fishing crew members who are out of work, and in the Sawyers’ case, on the verge of being out of their home. more@salemnews photo gmg 14:15

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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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