North Pacific council asks for analysis of salmon bycatch reductions – NPFMC Meeting continues, Listen Live

June 8, 2014 North Pacific

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council took a step toward considering salmon bycatch reductions in the Bering Sea today. The council initiated an analysis of a regulatory amendment package that includes five alternatives that could reduce chum and chinook bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery. Read more here 14:24

The meeting will be broadcast at https://npfmc.adobeconnect.com/june2014/.

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

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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