NEW BEDFORD — Eastern Fisheries, Inc. has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a fisherman who died in a January 2011 fall from a Hassey Street dock that was slippery with snow and ice. Read more here 06:21
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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For decades fish houses in NB and all over New England are a sad joke in terms of minimum safety for unloading vessels. It’s really like they don’t want you to come to the dock, All they want is YOUR fish.
I, simple me, would expect a fish exchange to be a little mote safety oriented but nooo. Safety costs money.To access the dock on a Fish Auction I once had to torch cut a 4″ square pipe. the OSHAs of the world would have a field day if they only had the balls to go out and inspect access to the fish unloading docks of the first nation of the world! (loud laughter)
Then comes a first class drunkard (1) that comes back to the boat alone by himdrunkself (2) and falls in the frigid waters and perishes.
Does 1.5 million give or take solve the situation?
Cut my prices, take me to court :)))))))
Wine for my true friends.