Let’s take control of our future – why the industry must take centre-stage in implementing the discard ban.

December 1, 2014 International News

Newlyn skipper of the Crystal Sea (SH118), David Stevens – I have been fishing now for nearly 25 years and in all of that time, the decisions that really matter, on how we fish and by what amount we can catch have been controlled by people far away miles from the sea, who most of us have never met. ,, We needed to filter the juvenile haddocks out of the net, and we knew that a square mesh panel,,, Read the rest here 13:41

David Stevens, decisions that are made in Brussels by the EU, Gear modification, implementing the discard ban, industry must take centre-stage, Let's take control of our future, Newlyn skipper of the Crystal Sea

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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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