Over 300 people turned out along the waterfront Sunday morning at the N.C. Port to honor the lives of commercial fishermen past and present with the 17th annual Blessing of the Fleet. It was all part of the 28th annual N.C. Seafood Festival, a three-day event downtown. With the sun high and a cool wind coming off the water, the crowd celebrated the heritage and livelihood of many commercial fishing families. Read the rest here 14:54
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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