The shrinking quotas for coldwater shrimp in Canadian waters, and the connected rising prices, mean raw materials cannot sustain the current number of plants, industry sources have warned. The inshore fishery quota has declined from some 175-180 million pounds in 2009/10 to 85m in 2014, and sources within the processing sector are agreed that this is . Read more here 08:54
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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