Stephen McCulloch wants his job back. A prominent master of the arcane art of dolphin rescue, for more than a decade he was a leader and key force at the Marine Mammal Program at FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI). Last February 14 he was fired. browardpalmbeach.com Read more here 10:41
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
FAU fires dolphin rescue instructor because they were made liable for some minor damages (Like a thousand bucks) by his actions. Like many institutions today they would prefer people to stand around with their heads up their asses instead of taking a chance and doing what they know in their hearts is right.
The act of saving someone’s life is taking a chance.
The act of helping people in time’s of duress, is taking a chance.
All true American Heroes had to take some risk in order to get the job done.
The US is being run by douchebaggy Wall Street types and paper pushers who have no clue about what it means to do what you think is right in difficult and averse circumstances. I think they should give the man his job back and fire the spineless weasels that believe the mission is less important than avoiding any minor liabilities that might bother the insurance adjusters.