“Pacific to Plate” bill announced to boost coastal fish markets

August 4, 2015 Pacific

San Diego Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins has announced that she will introduce legislation, “Pacific to Plate,” to clarify and streamline state laws to make it easier for, and other fish markets like it, to grow and thrive. The proposed state legislation would allow Fisherman’s Markets to operate as food facilities and would allow fresh fish to be cleaned for direct sale at Fisherman’s Markets. It would also let commercial fishermen organize under a single permit, just like Certified Farmers’ Markets. Read the rest here 08:25

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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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