The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Tuesday that the closure does not affect: Certain restricted areas in Terrebonne, Timbalier and Barataria bays. Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham said the intent is to provide additional opportunity for shrimpers to continue harvest in areas where white shrimp are somewhat less abundant and somewhat larger than in the interior marshes. Read the rest here 14:32
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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