Bellingham Washington selects seafood festival as its newest signature event

May 2, 2015 Pacific

A committee has chosen what it hopes will be the city’s new signature event, and it’s about celebrating a longtime industry that continues to play a big role in the local economy. The festival will focus on showcasing Bellingham’s maritime and commercial fishing sector through plenty of different events, including fish filleting and oyster shucking contests, boat cruises, survivor suit races, children’s activities and cooking demonstrations. Read the rest here 18:00

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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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