Floridians love Gulf red snapper. We love to catch them; we love to eat them. But between the anti-science types and bad faith, with a little greed and arrogance thrown in, we could lose one of our most prized species. Some sport fishermen — the ones with their own six-figure fancy boats — get positively pouty over restrictions on how many days they can fish and how many snapper they can take. Read the rest here 13:01
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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