Bevan Symposium on Sustainable Fisheries in Seattle, Washington and online, free and open to the public.

April 24, 2014 National

Magnuson-Stevens Act – History and Future Examined – The Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, Sam Rauch, our Northwest Fisheries Science Center Director, John Stein, and our Senior Scientist for Stock Assessments, Rick Methot, are all on the agenda to speak at the 14th annual Bevan Symposium in Seattle. Held annually at the University of Washington, the focus of this year’s symposium is the Magnuson-Stevens Act and its impending reauthorization. The symposium, which features two full days of presentations and discussions, will be broadcast online April 24-25 from 8am to 5pm PST. 08:15

Ana Parma, Bevan Symposium on Sustainable Fisheries, Chris Anderson, Dan Holland, Dave Witherell, Doc Hastings, Rick Methot, Steve Cadrin, Trevor Branch

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

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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