Good Read! Desperate scramble to save the Kulluk before it grounded near Kodiak

February 6, 2015 North Pacific

The Kulluk, Shell Oil’s Arctic drill rig, was “like a Weeble,” says tugboat engineer Craig Matthews — like one of those egg-shaped, roly-poly toys from the 1970s. “Weebles wobble,” the catchphrase went, “but they don’t fall down.” Matthews doesn’t remember how long he slept on New Year’s Eve 2012, the day he was ordered to save his crew’s life by cutting the Kulluk loose. He just remembers what woke him. Read the rest here 14:25

Desperate scramble to save the Kulluk, grounded near Kodiak, Shell Oil's Arctic drill rig, the Kulluk, tugboat engineer Craig Matthews

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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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