For my dissertation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, I researched historical change in marine animal populations and coastalecosystems. Since returning to my native New England to work as a professor at Colby College, I have continued to document declining populations and ecosystem alterations. (it gets better) Read more here 00:10
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
Her talking points sound all to familiar.Another P.H.D. know it all. You know what that means boys,put on the hip boots .
This is like a regurgitation of every EDF, CLF, OCEANA, greenwashing article ever written about fishing in New England. I noticed she must have asked Peter Shelly for a favor in a coat closet because this article just appeared on the talking fish website. Maine only has 230 miles of coastline? Didn’t menhaden have new restrictions put on their harvest last year? I could keep going on, but really, the only effort she made in this article was to make this readable to people that don’t know better, but believe what they read. She is a Dr.? Ear ache my eye. What a complete dimwit.