Fish panel holds off on limit cuts – “I say if you’re going to take 1 damn percent (more), shut the whole God damn thing down!”

December 21, 2012 New England

New England fishing regulators Thursday delayed voting on a series of significant cuts to fishermen’s 2013 allowable catch in groundfishing stocks after repeated and emotional warnings that the reductions would finish off an industry already grappling with a federally recognized economic “disaster.” The New England Fishery Management Council voted 15-2 to put off deciding on new catch limits for various bottom-dwelling groundfish species until their next meeting, scheduled for the end of January. Read More

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2 Responses to Fish panel holds off on limit cuts – “I say if you’re going to take 1 damn percent (more), shut the whole God damn thing down!”

philips66 says:

December 21, 2012 at 9:15 am

Any cut will wipe out the remaining little guys. Since this was Jellyfish Janes’ plan all along, I expect big cuts to be announced at the next meeting.

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- borehead - Moderator says:
  
  December 21, 2012 at 10:26 am
  
  I was listening yesterday via the webinar.
  
  It’s about time someone brought some passion to the morgue like council meetings.
  
  The constant parade of bureucratic parasites, ENGO and government,with their monotonic report presentations, fancy charts, all making good livings while fishermen, the whole reason for their parasitic existence, are being choked to death, had better take a hard look at themselves, because many of us see them for what they are.
  
  We are not blind, and we will no longer be tolerant.
  
  Bill Karp appologized for the treatment of renowned scientist Doug Butterworth, yesterday, promising to look into the issue.
  
  Read this to understand the issue.
  
  Reply

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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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