New England Fisheries Management Council to mull new strategies

December 14, 2013 New England

On Tuesday, the council is scheduled to take final action on the groundfish committee report, with heavy emphasis on Framework 51, which could include revisions to the Gulf of Maine cod and American plaice rebuilding plans; setting catch limits for white hake, yellowtail flounder, haddock and cod; small-mesh fishery accountability for Georges Bank yellowtail flounder; and other issues. “And on Wednesday, it will be habitat,” more@gdt 06:23

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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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