There’s always been quabbles with how fish resources are managed. Well now some folks are saying that process could raise human rights issues. We’ll find out what that’s all about. Jamie Baker interviews Wally Dove on this interesting and provocative issue on the Fisheries Broadcast. The discussion starts about three minute into the opener. Listen to the broadcast 11:00
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
In 1948 the U.N.’s International Declaration of Human Rights became adopted. In fact Eleanor Roosevelt was the Chairperson for this action that many Countries including the USA brought this forth.
Now even our own Constitution recognizes these protections. Fishermen are losing there Rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness. It is the State Departments job to insure these Rights are not infringed upon.
Has anyone heard from the State Department???