Port Alberni Port Authority buys real estate – Strip of land by Fishermen’s Harbour purchased to develop marine fuel service

November 20, 2014 Canada

To meet the demand for marine fuelling service on Alberni Inlet, the port authority has purchased a narrow strip of land by Fishermen’s Harbour.The Port Alberni Port Authority closed the deal on the 2.3-acre property from Western Forest Products in the past couple of weeks for $319,000. Read the rest here 22:09

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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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