Woman officer of fishers group in CamSur killed, others get death threats

August 16, 2015 International News

Woman officer of fishers group in CamSur killed, others get death threats Gerlie Menchie Alpajora, mother of two and secretary of Sagñay Tuna Fishers Association (STFA), was shot dead while sleeping beside her two children, aged 4 and 2, inside their home last July 30.Alpajora was reportedly killed for being a staunch anti-illegal fishing advocate, and for allegedly providing information to local authorities on persons involved in dynamite fishing and other forms of illegal fishing activities in their locality, the BFAR spokesperson said. Read the rest here 09:21

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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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