American Alliance of Fishermen and their Communities (AAFC) – a formal FOIA Request

January 30, 2013 National, New England

American Alliance of Fishermen and their Communities (AAFC)

“PRESERVING OUR NATION’S FISHERIES FOR ALL AMERICA” P.O. Box 5490 Wakefield R.I. 02880 401-837-6932 tinajaafc@gmail.com

January 29, 2013

The Honorable Dr. Jane Lubchenco Under Secretary of Commerce Administrator of NOAA 1401 Constitution Ave NW Room 5128 Washington DC 20230

Dear Dr. Lubchenco, Read more

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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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