Pacific Andes: Lafayette application has been sent for jack mackerel fishery

February 19, 2014 Uncategorized

Pacific Andes’ flagship floating factory vessel Lafayette is not on the list of ships authorized to fish or transship in the South Pacific jack mackerel fishery for 2014, the organization in charge of the fishery, confirmed to Undercurrent News. However, an application has been filed to authorize the vessel, Pacific Andes told Undercurrent. In an article dated Feb. 17, a Pacific Andes spokesman had told the Sydney Morning Herald that Lafayette was headed for the jack mackerel fishery. Read more@undercurrent 06:35

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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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