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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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One issue that is not mentioned based upon this selective dining, is that if only soft easily digested parts of the fish or sharks (as in this case) are consumed, it would make it relatively impossible to estimate “how much” these mammals are actually eating. Their daily consumption may be much higher than supposedly estimated, since there wouldn’t be any “hard” evidence to analyze. Whereas this dining on shark entrails has not been reported or documented to any degree to support it as a normal occurrence, that can’t be said of this selective gutting practice of salmon & other fish species.
Jim Kendall
NBSC
Ask the Gill-netters and Hookers what they are seeing up in the Northeast. If you can find any that still can “FISH”…