UPDATE: Coast Guard continues search for missing shrimpers after boat capsizes in Mississippi River

September 24, 2014 Gulf of Mexico

The search continues for two Jacksonville fishermen who went overboard after a local shrimping boat capsized in the Mississippi River Tuesday afternoon. Charles Christopher remembers the last conversation he had with his brother Nickoloas before the 34-year-old fisherman set out to sea. “The same thing we always say, ‘be careful and I love you,'” said Christopher as he held back tears. Read the rest here 23:04

Coast Guard, continues search, continues search for missing shrimpers, F/V Christopher’s Joy, good Samaritan vessel Miss Anna

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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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