There may be plenty more fish in the sea according to some, but local fishermen are banned from catching them. The UK is sending many fishermen into bankruptcy by only offering them a fraction of the nation’s fishing quota, according to Greenpeace who on Friday, launched legal action against the government at the High Court. Sarah North, Greenpeace Head of Oceans campaign, Read the rest here 17:18
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
Hello Green Peace, over here in the U.S. of A. i.e. … Look where H.R. 3534 “The Clear Act” failed only to be taken in HAND by the mighty “O” and impaled upon ALL AMERICANS. “T.O.O.P.” an EXECUTIVE ORDER one MAN’S DECISION has STOLEN ALL AMERICANS COMMON PROPERTY related to WATER be it SALTED or FRESH. CATCH SHARES have been imposed initiating a HOSTILE TAKE-OVER of TRADITIONAL FISHERIES…
OUR WATERS and WATER is poised for PRIVATIZATION, and in MAJOR DANGER of such…
HELP!!!
“A central problem with the UK’s approach to quota allocation is that it would appear inherently to favour the fishing vessels which do the most environmental harm and are of the least economic and social benefit to coastal communities.”
Is Jane Lubjob working in the UK now??? Sounds just like what she did here
I guess she isn’t the only one to plagerize a Stupid Policy!!!