Tuna fleets agree to 35pc reduction in fishing as part of ‘global initiative’ to boost prices

May 7, 2015 Pacific, Western Pacific

Capt MJ Souza

Some of the world’s biggest tuna fishing fleets have agreed to reduce their catch by 35 per cent in an effort to ease the current market crisis. An oversupply of skipjack tuna has led to prices crashing from more than $US2,000 ($2,513) per tonne in 2013 to around $US1,000 ($1,256) a tonne, causing many purse seine boats to operate at a loss. The World Tuna Purse Seine Organisation (WTPO) has announced its members, including some fleets from non-members, will be cooperating with the reduced effort. Read the rest here 14:49

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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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