Despite Hurricane Joaquin threat, the N.C. Seafood Festival is still on!

October 1, 2015 Mid Atlantic

As of presstime, the N.C. Seafood Festival is still in full swing despite Hurricane Joaquin that is forecast to be off the coast during the weekend. The N.C. Seafood Festival board of directors held a board meeting with the town council, and Morehead City police and fire departments Wednesday afternoon and discussed the plans for the festival. The board will meet again at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, to determine if there will be any more changes, but as of presstime the festival will go on as planned. Read the rest here 10:40

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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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