N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission offers webcast of meeting – informal question and answer session at 6 p.m. tonight

August 20, 2014 Mid Atlantic

This week’s meeting of the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission will be in Raleigh, but you won’t have to hit the road to follow the board’s discussions of red drum and other issues. For the first time, the commission will offer a live webcast of its meeting, which begins tonight with a public comment period and continues with business sessions Thursday and Friday. webcast instructions here, webcast link here Read more here 12:52

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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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