Paul Frontiero Jr’s Photo gallery of F/V Miss Trish at Gloucester Marine Railway posted at that funky North Shore blog, Good Morning Gloucester! Click “next” below the image Click here! 21:18
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
Good boat , good captain , Probably , MISS TRISH will be one of Gloucester ‘s last offshore boats ?? Because of poor fishing science and environmentalist who sell their souls to big oil , for money ! Trying to convince the public , fishing has killed our oceans resources . POLLUTION IS THE PROBLEM , NOT FISHING !!
I agree. Pollution has been until now ignored. They’ve renamed it. Ocean Acidification. We are surrounded by fraud, and fraudsters.