Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Meeting Schedule – February 5 – 8, 2013

February 5, 2013 Gulf of Mexico

February 5 – 8, 2013 View Committee Agenda View Council Agenda To watch this meeting live, click here! February 5, 2013 – Day 1 – Closed session all day

Testimony will be taken on the following: Reef Fish Framework Action for Vermilion and Yellowtail Snapper ACL and Venting Tool Requirements Regulatory Amendment to Adjust 2013 Red Snapper Quotas Texas Cooperative Shrimp Closure

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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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