Back Fishing – Former UFC Fighter Cody McKenzie Retires from MMA, Cites Poor Pay and Treatment

December 21, 2014 National, North Pacific

Cody “The AK Kid” McKenzie (15-6) retired from the sport of mixed martial arts Thursday evening. B/R: Now, just for comparison, can you say how much you make commercial fishing in a typical season? CM: I’ve had seasons where I made $80,000 in three months, and I’ve had seasons where I made $5,000 in three months. Fishing is a flip of the coin, but that’s only three months out of the year, and at least I’m out on the boat. Read the rest here 17:09

Cites Poor Pay and Treatment, Cody "The AK Kid" McKenzie, Cody McKenzie, Retires from MMA

One Response to Back Fishing – Former UFC Fighter Cody McKenzie Retires from MMA, Cites Poor Pay and Treatment

StripedBassHole says:

December 22, 2014 at 11:48 am

Fishing gets in your Blood especially when you grow-up around it. Even people that never lived by the Sea catch the Bug. It becomes more then an occupation, we thrive when we’re out at Sea it becomes a PASSION. How can you beat interacting with nature. We see the trends it’s not Rape and Pillage to everyone. We are the true Stewards of the Sea. True Conservation is in our best interest. If you eat the Whole Box of Chocolate in one Day that’s it. Maybe you can afford many Boxes of Chocolate but if you eat a Box every Day it will eventually catch up to you, you get Fat, risk Diabete’s and other Health issues.
Not to mention having a number of Vessels out there creates a SAFETY BLANKET. We’re very vigilant and if someone is in trouble we’ll drop what we’re doing and go into RESCUE MODE, if there’s something questionable going on out there we’ll see it, you can’t beat free HOMELAND SECURITY. People should consider these things before they paint us as VILLIANS. With all said we just want to FISH and provide FOOD for those that can’t catch it themselves.

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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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