Early? Small? Two bucks a pound? What about that Fraser River? Reality TV? These are some of the questions on the minds of the Bristol Bay fishing industry, which is quickly pouring back into the hub towns of Dillingham and Naknek. Every day more processing plant workers arrive, boats go in the water, and one by one, kings and sockeye hit subsistence nets up and down the beaches and rivers. Read more here 08:14
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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