Netex Canada Netting makes transition from fishing to sports industry with ease

June 19, 2015 Canada

Mark Wilson grew up in Delta, expecting to make a career of commercial fishing just as generations of his family did before him. However, the decline of the business in B.C. led him to think of other ways his skillset could be used. “I’d been taught by my brothers how to build nets, and then worked with them when I was younger. They type of netting that we built for commercial [fishing] was the same way we build golf nets or baseball nets,” he said. Video, Read the rest here 10:22

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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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