Open letter to John Bullard, Terry Stockwell: Fishermen are the real environmental stewards

October 23, 2014 New England

This is an open letter to John Bullard, regional administrator for NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service, and Terry Stockwell, chairman of the New England Fishery Management Council. After attending and speaking at the New England Fishery Management Council in Hyannis, I feel compelled to offer the following. The New England fishing industry has a proud and rich history of men and women who did all they could to better their families. Read the rest here 13:03

Fishermen are the real environmental stewards, gloucester, Lifelong New England fisherman, RICHARD L. BEAL

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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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