A cod-pricing agreement has been reached between the FFAW and one of the few plants in the province interested in processing cod. The union reached a deal with Icewater Seafoods in Arnold’s Cove for 80 cents a pound for premium quality fish, 40 cents for B Grade product and 20 cents for C Grade. That compares to a straight price of 50 cents a pound last year. Read more here 14:38
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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