This prospect — even if the most sensitive areas remain protected — has infuriated environmental advocates, who worry about harming the ledge’s unique biodiversity and further damaging already dramatically reduced cod populations. Vito Giacalone says fishermen are “just looking for some common sense.” Read more here 11:54
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
Wow! Take a look at the comments at the end of this article in the Boston Globe. Either they’re all Conservation Law Foundation plants or the campaigns of misinformation brainwashing the public to believe that fishermen are the villains of the planet and arch enemies of the sea is working better than suspected.
Isn’t the Boston Globe the paper whose editorial staff Jane Lubchenco was lobbying instead of attending the congressional hearing called to get NOAA to account for their bizarre anti-fishing posture?
ha! El Globo is the CLF Megaphone!
You’re absolutely correct. She had no time for personal friend, John “Mrs Heinz” Kerry.
She couldn’t wait to get to the Boring Broadsheet to spread more pollution.
The comments are reflective of ignorance, based on things like The Bottom Line and other dogmatic propaganda pieces. Speaking of which, the Billy Bass talking fish piece should give you a cheap thrill!
Looks like someone slipped a Bottle of Jameson’s in oops…