BOSTON – Monday, March 17th, 8am – Please Join CSF, National Fisherman, and former Congressman Barney Frank

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Please Join CSF, National Fisherman, and former Congressman Barney Frank in Boston for a Public Workshop on the MSA Reauthorization.

Date: Monday, March 17th from 8am-10am Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

Room 254B 415 Summer Street Boston, MA 02210 617-954-2000

On-site parking is available for $12/ day for self park or $25/day for valet

Click to view the Invitation to the Boston Workshop: CSF – Boston Invitation

Click to view the Agenda for the Boston Workshop: MSA PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA – BOSTON

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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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