A love of lobstering

February 12, 2015 New England

Sewall lobsterman york maine Seventy-seven-year-old George “Elly” Sewall, a York native, has spent six decades on the water. Sewall is one of the few working fishermen around to still to have a private dock behind his home near Sewall’s Bridge in York (which happens to be named after his ancestors.) It is here on his property that Sewall houses his boat, gear, workshop and everything he needs to fish, all comfortably surrounded within sight of the house he has lived in with his wife for the past 50 years. Read the rest here 08:52

A love of lobstering, Seventy-seven-year-old George “Elly” Sewall, Shelley Wigglesworth, York Maine

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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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