A slow news day, Screwed up Menu, and 2 job postings on the Bluenose II, or III or whatever they call her

July 20, 2014 Uncategorized

I’m digging, guy’s, but it’s slow digging for fish news. I’ll dredge some up. I always scrape something up. The menu on the blue portion of the header bar is screwed up! Was up till the early hours tryin’ to get it squared away with nothing positive to report. Like, FIXED! It’s drivin’ me nuts! I did come up with something for all the sailors though, the new, reformulated Bluenose that has our Nova Scotia friends up in arms, is posting 2 crew openings! Each job is a temporary, full-time opportunity for the Second Mate, and a deck hand. Read more here

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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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