Today, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, acting NOAA administrator, appointed Eileen Sobeck as assistant administrator for NOAA Fisheries National Marine Fisheries Service. (They just can’t seem to get this right!) Read [email protected]> 13:40
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
A left wing radical enviro from Stanford? I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya.
Something smells Fishy here. What happened to the Presidential appointment? No Senate reviews? Oh she’s an Assistant. Is Obama working around the Law again? EDF says she’ll be great and she’s a Lawyer. Imagine what she can do, Janie made herself a Judge with no Law background.
With such a crisis in full Blum they’re going to allow an Assistant or Temp run things. This President has better slight of Hand then Penn and Teller.