One person died and another was hospitalized after a chemical leak on a fishing boat at a Kodiak harbor Wednesday. The Kodiak Police Department responded on Wednesday to a report of a refrigeration leak aboard the fishing vessel Alpine Cove, which was at the St. Herman Harbor on Near Island. Emergency responders treated crew members on the scene, Kodiak police said in a news release. Read more here 10:08
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
God Bless, Im.so sorry, fished Alpine Cove crabbing, skipper Owner Guss ran operated it. Prayers fleet and families