NOAA Fisheries appoints first-ever research economist

February 1, 2013 National

Doug Lipton has become the first-ever senior research economist at NOAA Fisheries, the body has announced. In this new role, Lipton will provide leadership and strategic direction to the agency’s economics and social science research program. Read more The other senior scientists at Fisheries are Richard Methot, named in October 2012 as the new senior scientist for stock assessments, Read more and Jason Link, named in December 2012 as the new senior scientist for ecosystem management. 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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