WHEN a fisheries patrol vessel intercepted three foreign vessels fishing illegally off the coast they found “modern-day slaves” forced to live and work in appalling conditions. Some of the crew, mainly Indonesian and Taiwanese, had been working on the tuna fishing vessels for between three and five years without being paid. Read [email protected] 07:36
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
Where are our federally mandated ” fisheries spy’s” now ? Worried that I might catch a sundial in with a bag of fluke,thats where. Kind of a joke if you ask me.Where are our friends at Puke charitable trusts now? There social engineers,how can they let this happen? I’ll tell you how.In the good old United States,if you have a fisheries permit the own you,and will make a cash cow out of you. Show me one observer who has the balls to take this mess on and I’ll show you an observor that’s welcome on my boat anytime
Hope, the Cape Town authoriries will sell the tuna and distribute the proceedings among the crewa to be repatriated, for otherwise they won’t be paid for all the years of their enslavement. MB-Y