Dennis Robillard has been fishing out of Gloucester for 25 years. He tells FOX 25 the new limit puts him out of the cod business. He has put his boat up for sale. “I figured my parents taught me if I work hard you get out of what you put into something, and unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be the case now,” says Robillard. Read more here
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
NMFS Destroying jobs since 1970 and earlier