‘Deadliest Catch’ ‘Captain’s Choice 1: Sig Hansen’ on Discovery

April 12, 2015 National

Today, as a prelude to the eleventh season of “Deadliest Catch,” Discovery Channel gave the captains a chance to choose their favorite episodes. Sig Hansen, the only captain to appear on all eleven seasons of this fan favorite chose the premiere episode of season one titled “Greenhorns.” When it first aired on April, 12, 2005, it began a documentary and nobody ever expected that it would take off and become such a gigantic hit. So sit back and watch as you will see some familiar faces and boats, some that may have appeared once or twice and others whose whereabouts are unknown. Read the rest here 13:12

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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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