HEADS UP!! February 12, 2014 SAFMC Port Meeting CANCELLED Due to Winter Weather and Bridge Closures

February 12, 2014 South Atlantic

The February 12, 2014 port meeting scheduled for 10:30 AM in Charleston, SC has been cancelled. Area bridges in Charleston County have been closed due to ice accumulation and a winter weather mix is forecast through early Wednesday afternoon. Therefore, the port meeting is cancelled and will be rescheduled for March 2014. New meeting information will be posted to the 2014 Port Meeting page on the Council’s website as soon as it becomes available. 08:18

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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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