The Real “Seafood Fraud” Mislabeling Miscreants

September 13, 2014 Canada, ENGO, National

What is this “mislabeling” and “seafood fraud” scuffle all about these days? Why, you might ask, is Oceana suddenly so concerned about “truth in packaging” for fish? And what is behind their somewhat baffling concern for the fish-consuming public? Actually, Pew, Oceana, EDF, NRDC, and CLF (and too long a list of their additional subsidiaries to cite here) have for many years been doing some of their own “mislabeling” and “seafood fraud”. They’ve been “mislabeling” fishermen as overfishing-greedy-habitat-destroyers. Read the rest here 15:55

and CLF, been “mislabeling” fishermen, campaigns of misinformation and outright lies, Dick Grachek, EDF, Fisherynation.com, NGOs perpetrated “seafood fraud”, NRDC, Oceana, Oceana’s “fight seafood fraud” Campaign, overfishing-greedy-habitat-destroyers, Pew, privatization scam of ITQ’s or catch shares, promoting the privatization scam, seafood fraud., violated any “truth in packaging” ethic, “Seafood Fraud” Mislabeling Miscreants

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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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