The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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This letter will be followed by many variations by various ENGO shills with fancy titles. (I am not impressed!) Thats how they roll. One starts, and others follow at all the progressive sites where uninformed people will blame fishermen for all that is wrong in the world, including Bengazi.
"It is irresponsible to pretend that federal regulations – not warming waters, not decreasing salinity, not dramatic changes in the predator/prey balance of our seas – are to blame for what is happening to stocks of groundfish."
Wrong assumption about the regulation's Matty.
Lets address the periphials tossed into the mix.
There are higher water temps on record from the fifty's in New England.
Ken Salizars Seek and Destroy of dams in New England are not having a positive effect on the Gulf of Maine, and about that predator/prey thing?
When will you call for the seal hunt to begin, open season on dogfish, and condem the NESC for not including herring in the predator catagory?
You can try to divert away from the catch share bullshit, but it ain't gonna work.
I think they are realizing that we are so on to them, and our grass roots group just keeps getting larger!
Gotta really ramp it up, and get them in defense mode. They've had the ball long enough.