The proposal came in response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group seeking to extend endangered species protection to additional animals. “We really do have a coral reef crisis on our hands,” said Miyoko Sakashita, senior attorney and oceans director at the center. “The scientists are telling us coral reefs could very well disappear within our lifetimes.” Read more
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
The question is, Miyoko Sakashita, will you disapear in my lifetime?
What a surprise. Back in early 2000, or around that time, SWIFTMUD either authorized it or did it directly, dumped hospital sludge in the Gulf of Mexico. The dumping was thousands of gallons. The newspaper article said they were going to do it every six months. My husband was a commercial fishermen at the time and said the water went from blue to brown. The next year he said that the when you fished the same area it was dead and black slime came up on the lines. We never read about it again, so we don’t know if they are still dumping or not. You cannot poison the reefs and then complaint they are dead. Just sayin.
Second story in two days about the Center for Biological Diversity, Oceana Inc and Turtle Island Restoration Sue the NMFS/F+WS (us) AGAIN! Loggerhead’s at the brink of extinctio………