PORTLAND (AP) — With the opening of elver season Sunday, fishermen for the first time are using electronic swipe cards to record sales of the baby eels, a move the state says will streamline data, enforce new catch limits and prevent illegal transactions. Read more here sunjourna.com 07:25
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
even though I totally agree with the new system, I do not agree on the quota so some people are laughing because they still have 100 pound qoutas or more while other people who have fished just as long get reduced to ten pounds or less, this I feel is wrong and just like tax brackets work the ones with the bigger qoutas should have took more of a reduction then somebody catching thirty pounds a year know some people have been reduced too the point it isn’t even worth going with the price drop. But big deal right cause the ones like the guy holding the card are still laughin all the way too bank.