UPDATED: Commercial Fishing Vessel Caledonian capsizes off Tofino, B.C., three dead

September 6, 2015 Canada

A commercial fishing boat capsized off the coast of Vancouver Island overnight Saturday, killing at least two men. The boat capsized about 50 kilometres west of Tofino, B.C., according to Lieutenant Nicole Murillo, with the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre. The cause of the accident was not immediately known, Murillo said. Three Coast Guard boats and a helicopter continued to search for a third person Sunday. Rescue crews located one survivor, who was found wearing a life jacket and floating on a safety raft. He was taken to a Victoria hospital by cruise ship. Read the rest here 16:08

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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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