For every fisherman who was willing to publicly admit that things were getting worse out on the water, there always seemed to be an orchestrated group of fishermen willing to claim that there were so many cod that they couldn’t get away from them. It was, of course, nonsense at least as far as the best available science is concerned. And so much more, Read the rest here 17:33
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
For a guy that helped deliver the remedy to save the fish, Catch Shares, Pete Shelley surely is vocal about failure, but not vocal about his hand in it!
That was the fix all, and CLD certainly invested in it, siding with NMFS, and Lubchenco representing them in the appeal.
How quickly Peter is to fight for climate change, but ignore it while study after study, and hundreds of articles about fish shifting towards the poles.
Ignoring the fact, I say that because I’ve seen no reference to other species moving into the Gulf of Maine in any of these masterpieces of cunning deception.
The next step for the whores at CLF is ESA.
“They were blindly fishing out their own future all the while blaming the federal government for their woes.” In reality the hook whores got a green light (via catch shares scam) to wipe out the cod on stellwagen, and were thanking the feds & their green friends as they laughed all the way to the bank! While guys who had sacrificed to rebuild that stock sat back and watched (again thanks to the catch shares scam). Shelley is a delusional man.
He is dangerous
I see the big green mafia is fighting against the Navy, to protect the whales on the west coast, from underwater explosions. East coast whales being protected from underwater explosions? crickets.
CLF SHOULD HELP TO BRING CODFISH HATCHERY BACK . IT WORKED IN THE PAST, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HAS IMPROVED SINCE THE 1900S GREATLY. IF CLF CARES ABOUT CODFISH THEY WOULD ?????
They only care from a legal aspect. It gives them a reason to sue the federal government. He mentioned Endangered Species Act. That’s CLF Gold! That’s the crown jewel.