A report commissioned by the city Fisheries Commission shows that, as of a month ago, 210 commercial fishing vessels berth at docks and wharves in Gloucester’s Inner Harbor and 38 percent of those utilize publicly-owned facilities. Read more here 06:05
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
Call it what it was a “Hostile Takeover”! They even had the help of the Milken Institute run my the brother of Mike Milken one of the nonfiction Books “Den of Thieves” main Subjects. He has been barred by the Sec from any involvement in Finance.
“The Obama Ocean Policy” must be reversed by Congress. The “MSA” should be rewritten and more balanced to recognize the Spirit of the original 1976 Magnuson Fishery Act.
The U.N.’s “Lost” should not even be considered.
It’s Time to wake up America you have been robbed and don’t even know it. The Nation’s most important Resource “WATER” is at stake.