NOAA Fisheries today announced that it is reopening the New York Summer Flounder Fishery for federal permit holders on December 12. This reopening is concurrent with the State of New York’s reopening of its commercial summer flounder fishery to state permitted vessels and dealers effective December 12, 2012.
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
And I thought there would be no Christmas this year!!!!! Thank You once again for friggin up the show NMFS. Happy Holidays, CapnHappy
They’re just so good to you guy’s.
Funny they stopped mentioning NMFS. It’s NOAA Fisheries!
It’s everywhere!