Chinese crew member sought after five found murdered on fishing boat

October 10, 2015 International News

Chinese police have launched a manhunt after finding five bodies, one of them beheaded, on board a fishing boat off the country’s east coast. The boat was found near the city of Zhoushan in Zhejiang province with no-one aboard alive, according to a police notice posted online. One crew member and a life raft were missing. The Zhoushan police notice said was “strongly suspected” of involvement in the case, but offered no further details. Read the rest here 12:00

Chinese crew member sought, five found murdered on fishing boat, Zhoushan in Zhejiang province

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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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