Old School! Groundfisherman takes up lobstering — with wood traps

July 21, 2015 New England

old school wood traps Daniel Dunbar is a groundfisherman. So, too, are Robbie Dunn and Randy Mustake, his crew members aboard the fishing vessel Little Mako, which was loading up gear early Monday morning at Capt. Joe & Sons in East Gloucester. But Dunbar, who lives in Swampscott and fishes out of Gloucester, says the federal government’s tight limits on cod and other groundfishing regulations have spurred he and his crew into lobstering — “like I did when I was about 12 years old,” says Dunbar, now 46. Read the rest here 13:48

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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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