Help save a friendly fisherman!!! – Rodney Baker

August 4, 2015 National

My husband Rodney Baker was diagnosed with Metastatic Melanoma Cancer. We have no insurance and no savings, and they want treat this aggressively. We all know what that means. With that being said, him being sick from treatment he will not be able to work. He’s a commercial fisherman, he’s captain of The Casey’s Pride out of Madeira Beach. He’s been fishing for 30+ years, he loves it, besides my children and I fishing is his life. My goal is $5000 for now because I don’t know we’ll need and were not usually the type of people to ask for help,,, Read the rest here, and help if you can. 20:38

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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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