Darren Harrity has had one heck of a week. – “When I swam up, the captain said, ‘Man, I’m sure happy to see you guys.’”

July 25, 2015 National, Pacific

The Coast Guard petty officer 2nd class and rescue swimmer, stationed out of Group Air Station North Bend, saved four fishermen off the coast of Cape Blanco on Tuesday morning. He swam more than 1,750 yards, through frigid waves, before he was done. He then became a bit of a celebrity, even landing on the pages of the Washington Post, as he spent much of his Wednesday handling interview requests from all over the country. Read the rest here 18:38

Coast Guard petty officer 2nd class Darren Harrity, Coast Guard rescue swimmer

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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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