Lake Manitoba Commercial Fishermen’s Association Plans Strategy

February 2, 2015 Canada, Inland Fisheries

Members of the Lake Manitoba Commercial Fishermen’s Association, South Basin gathered in Portage la Prairie yesterday to plan their strategy concerning jackfish in the lake. They believe an increase in the jackfish population’s impacted the perch and pickerel fishery, to the point where fishers can no longer make a living. Chair Allan Gaudry of St. Laurent says the meeting produced three options they’ll take to Conservation Minister Gord MacIntosh. Read the rest here 07:45

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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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