The biggest storm “in a very long time” is headed toward the Bering Sea region and could strike the western Aleutian Islands by Friday, says the National Weather Service. The storm currently known as Super Typhoon Nuri is expected to skirt the east coast of Japan by Wednesday. St. Paul, in the Pribilofs, is one Alaska community that could be hit hard by the storm. Read the rest here 22:44
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
[…] impacts for this weekend may have impacts on King Crab harvest along with other impacts all along Western Alaska. On the longer term this genesis will have to […]