UPDATED: F/V Support – Commercial fisherman rescued by the Coast Guard off Montauk Point, NY

December 7, 2013 Mid Atlantic

A 47-foot Motor Life Boat rescue crew from Station Montauk diverted from training to the location. Once on scene, the crew recovered a 52-year-old commercial fisherman from a life raft and brought him on board where he received treatment for hypothermia. “The initial report came from a birdwatcher in the area who observed a person in the water that appeared to be hanging onto a life raft,” The fisherman’s 38-foot vessel reportedly capsized and sank approximately six miles from Montauk Point. more@uscgnews 20:12

Coast Guard Rescues Fisherman Found Floating Off Montauk Point Saturday more@easthamtonpatch 16:48

Coast Guard, Commercial fisherman rescued, Montauk Point NY

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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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