Jay Andersson finds some inconvenient truths about todays corporate backed Marine Conservation Industry. The self-appointed saviors –Read more here in the Guest Writers Column 17:17
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
I heard many years ago that Sunfish was funded by Japanese and American fishing tackle companies and the name Sunfish was rather ironic because Japanese longliners loved eating The sunfish raw and frozen like an icy fowl tasting ice cream . Nowdays they concentrate their efforts on keeping Australian hands off the tuna that inhabit our coasts so they can hammer them whilst they winter in the Solomon Sea and places where they congregate after leaving the Australian Fishing Zone .