Fishing enthusiast says letterbox bombed over campaign to ban commercial netting

August 22, 2015 International News

Judy Lynne, executive officer of recreational fishing group Sunfish, has been locked in a battle against commercial netters. She said her mailbox exploded in flames on Thursday night, on the eve of the State Government announcing three net-free zones. Ms Lynne, who was celebrating the anti-netting victory, said the timing of the bombing was suspect. Ms. Lynne said other Sunfish members had been victims of anonymous death threats and harassment as the campaign heated up. Read the rest here 20:27

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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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