A top NOAA fisheries scientist has proposed dramatic change in yellowtail flounder stock assessments

January 18, 2014 New England

NEW BEDFORD — A top NOAA fisheries scientist has proposed a dramatic change in the way the agency makes its stock assessments for yellowtail flounder. The proposal by Dr. William Karp, director of the Northeast Regional Science Center, embraces the view of Dr. Brian Rothschild, professor emeritus at UMass Dartmouth. It reduces the reliance on statistical models that have proven unreliable and inadequate, instead calling on NOAA to employ additional data and information that it previously wouldn’t consider. Read more@southcoasttoday 19:36

Dr. Brian Rothschild, Dr. William Karp, NOAA, smast, yellowtail flounder stock assessments

2 Responses to A top NOAA fisheries scientist has proposed dramatic change in yellowtail flounder stock assessments

william skrobacz says:

January 18, 2014 at 8:18 pm

how in the world did it get to this,noaa listening to reason?

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- Joel Hovanesian says:
  
  January 19, 2014 at 9:43 am
  
  They’re listening but will they do anything about it.
  
  ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS!
  
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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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