New Orleans – Waters closed for over 4 years reopen to commercial, recreational fishing

August 4, 2014 Gulf of Mexico

Waters around Plaquemines, South Jefferson and Lafourche Parishes reopened to commercial and recreational fishing on Monday. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has re-opened a number of state inshore and Gulf of Mexico waters that were previously closed due to oiling from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. <Read more here> 10:10

2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Plaquemines, reopened to commercial and recreational fishing, South Jefferson and Lafourche Parishes

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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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