Recreational and charter boats are essentially banned from fishing due to this, and local fishermen believe this decision is flawed because they say they have data that indicates the commercial fishermen are the ones doing more harm to fish populations. Read the rest here photo, eastmans.com 13:22
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
Oh say can you see, that socialist we’ll be?
The decision is flawed because people in New England and in the Mid-Atlantic region keep voting in Demo-Crap politicians who are in bed with the enviros. Nothing is going to change, and for the recreational fishermen unless MRIP is totally revamped, along with putting the big cheese who has been running MRIP on the unemployment line. Bureaucrats or in this case, Fish-crats who do not solve problems, should be taken off the public gravy train. Fishing businesses should have already realized that with the government that deep into the fishing business, it is time to find a new line of work…sad to say, but this is the gradual winding down of the fishing industry around these parts.
There was some moron here named jake. He seems to have left the building!
Bore Head…The Jack-Me-Hoffs of the world don’t mind shoveling a steady diet of tilapia and other frankenfish down their gizzards. Most likely one of Hussein’s useful idiots who stumbled onto your site and probably is still driving around with the faded Hope & Change bumper sticker on his car.
Ah, just an expected missed incision.