Strangers come to the aid of hero fishermen who lost it all

November 1, 2015 International News

A Cape Town pupil “who loves Arniston and its people” has plans to start a fundraiser, and people who read about the plight of the fishermen who lost their only means of income, are putting on their thinking-caps. And all of this this was sparked by the story of Gerald Swart, 59, and his ten-man crew, whose boat the Mrs H is now at the bottom of the ocean after trying to save a stricken craft on Monday. When the boat sank, it quite literally also sank the hopes and dreams of the 11 Southern Cape families. Read the rest here 08:46

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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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