The New Jersey Senate has passed a bill to ban the trade, sale and distribution of shark fin products and may now join several U.S. states and territories with already with similar laws. The bill introduced by Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union), along with Sen. Christopher Bateman (R-Somerset) in May 2014, passed today by a vote of 28 to 10 according to The Humane Society of the United States. Read the rest here 19:58
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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