The impact of drastic cuts to the inshore northern shrimp quota are being felt this summer. 
says the third shift at the Notre Dame Seafoods plant in Twillingate didn’t get any work, and he’s not sure what that will mean in the long term. He says the second shift still hasn’t earned enough hours to qualify for Employment Insurance, and the third shift hasn’t had any work at all. Listen to the audio’s here 15:01
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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