The net pen policy has held up approval of the shoreline management program, which regulates development on the shoreline, since February 2011. That’s when Ecology approved most of a proposed update of the shoreline management program, also known as an SMP, except for a proposed county ban on fin-fish aquaculture, which raises non-native species, such as Atlantic salmon, in pens. more@pdn 08:46
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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