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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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Ted Morton, and the Pew Oil phonies are non productive members of society. eight or nine years, Teddy? More like twenty years of interloper meddling, perverting issues, and hogging at the ENGO trough. You ought to be ashamed of the lies, and fantasizing fables you and your oil funded, corporate backed, lawsuit creating, non profit (tax payer subsidized) ENGO Gang Green goons.
But, hey! We all gotta make a living, right?
” Ted Morton, director of U.S. Oceans, Federal Fisheries for the Pew Charitable Trusts.”
Big title. Big money. Big deal.
“acknowledged climate changes are partly to blame.”?
Anyone paying attention to any of these issues is aware of the latest articles explaining this phenomenon has been taking place for the past four decades, and realizes that as much as these boobs want to continue talking about over fishing being the cause, they offer this caveat? Shallow bastards.
A quote in this article that must be noted,
“We need more flexibility, more ability for the managers to manage without being bound by unrealistic requirements, sometimes silly and damaging requirements. You can’t get everything to MSY at once. You have a bunch of fish species in the same ecological niche. They eat the same stuff, when they aren’t eating each other,”
If these ENGO groups are successful at derailing flexibility in the Reauthorization of MSA, only they are to blame for the continuance of fishery management failure, something they relish, because if there is no crisis, real, or fabricated, their shtick is something they crusade against, unsustainable.
and to top off these idiots adgender, is puting for observer coverage for a guy(me) that has 2.500 lbs of codfish for the year and paying for it! how on earth did it get like this??we are not the enemy, the oil companys own the ocean,jelly fish jane proved it !