Landings, gross revenues, and net revenues per vessel reached three-year highs for Northeast groundfish vessels during the fishing year that ended in April 2012! Read More
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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
Now who would of thought? NOAA can’t do addition “bean counting?” Something doesn’t jive here. The bottom line is what the captain and crews are making after a trip.
More manipulated NOAA data!
They have developed some shitty habit’s. Like lying!
Only NOAA or the US government would have the audacity to paint a rosey picture of what’s happening here in New England fisheries.
These people are sick sons of bitches. If what has happened were not so tragic these reports would be laughable. Absolutely sickening these people. How do they look at themselves in the mirror at the end of the day?
Dr. Finklefuque at the NESC realy believes things are looking up!
Things probably are looking up for him/them
Time to throw a wrench into another bogus assessment!
I’m very interested in Bill Karps action regarding the Butterworth treatment at Woods Hole. They get nothing right.
Getting to the truth with this agancy is an excersize in futility. They answer to no one.
We’re gonna change that.
No way can they lie like that and get away with it. We find a crack and jam a big frickin wedge in it, and hammer away. This is a nice looking crack to start with. Again.