New Bedford Fishermen’s Pension Fund can’t tread water – That’s just wrong.

November 4, 2013 New England

Everyone knows by now that the federal government has clamped down on fishing for all the reasons I don’t need to get into here. So that has stopped almost all the groundfish boats from fishing. That, in turn, has nearly cut off the supply of funds being paid into the New Bedford Fishermen’s Pension Fund, which collects 2.2 percent off the top of the catch of every boat, before expenses. (it gets better). more@southcoasttoday 07:13

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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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