ATHENS) – Officials from some of the world’s top fishing powers signed a declaration in Greece on Friday to promote sustainable management of fish stocks. The signatories — the EU, United States, Japan, Philippines, Colombia and Indonesia — pledged to support measures to address fishing overcapacity. Read more here eubusiness.com 14:08
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
Better yet we can replenish and restore ocean fish pastures. In 2012 the first large scale ocean salmon pasture restoration was completed. Last fall the largest catch of salmon in all of history was caught in Alaska. Fish boffins now project the largest catch of Sockeye salmon in all history is due to arrive in the Fraser River of British Columbia, instead of 2 million fish like last year 72 million are on their way. Read more http://russgeorge.net/2014/03/09/fraser-river-sockeye-expected-return-time-high-numbers/