Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s MSA reauth hearing, fishing industry outlines wish-list to Congress

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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
I wonder what Begich was thinking when he heard that.
“John Quinn, a former state representative from New Bedford and the vice chair of the New England Fisheries Management Council, said the “inflexibility” of the 10-year rebuilding period is the “exact cause of the decline in the groundfish industry in New England.”
To which, Peter Shelley would, of course, disagree!
The Magnuson-Stevens Act is Working in New England
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