Magnuson Stevens Act changes focused on flexibility, science, accountability, and transparency

March 26, 2015 National

Young’s proposed version of the MSA is titled the “Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act.” His philosophy is to let the councils, who have more intimate understandings of their stocks and more responsiveness than the Department of Commerce, have more control of their respective operations, and to update the act to account for better scientific governance and more attention to economic effects. The revised act has several amendments regarding stock rebuilding protocols, council transparency,,, Read the rest here 14:55

H.R. 1335, magnuson-stevens-act, reauthorize and amend, Rep. Don Young, ‘‘Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act’’

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StripedBassHole says:

March 26, 2015 at 10:20 pm

COMMON SENSE. Maybe it’s time to give it a try. Sorry you can’t read it in a Book or Surf-It. Get out there and see things first-hand. Sorry it will take more then just a couple Whale Watch Tours. If you’re on the New NOAA Research Vessel remind the Capt. Head-way speed is 5 Knots or less…

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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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