Eddie Emery: A man in a building in a city somewhere
A man in a building in a city somewhere says there’s no seabass to catch…every trap every day all summer…but I must be wrong 14:54
The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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Lemme guess…..the man in the building is a fisheries “expert” and he makes policy for NOAA. Before that, he was a bureaucrat with the Sierra Club. The more working families he can ruin, the higher up in the Obama administration he’ll go!