Most of a longliner carrying 19,000 pounds of crab was found almost underwater Thursday morning at the wharf in Lumsden. Nobody was aboard the Miss Cape Freels at the time of the incident. Devon Cross, the nephew of the boat’s captain, told CBC News that the vessel was fine around 3 a.m., but was clearly in trouble about three hours later, when his uncle was called. Read the rest here 10:17
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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