From: Tom Nies,Executive Director, NEFMC – Sunday, January 25, 2015 4:34 PM

January 25, 2015 New England

To All – Due to the expected blizzard conditions that will develop in New England late Monday night and extend into Tuesday, the first day of the Council meeting, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 is cancelled. The meeting will tentatively begin Wednesday afternoon (time TBD) but I will publish a revised agenda tomorrow morning after checking the weather forecast again. Please contact me with your questions. Tom Nies Executive Director New England Fishery Management Council [email protected] 978-465-0492 ext 113 18:57

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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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