Fishermen’s Federation chief says lessons will be learned from Beryl tragedy

December 8, 2015 International News

Trawlermen who failed to rescue their crewmate after he plunged into the freezing water will be “going through hell”, according to the chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF). The crew of the Banff-registered Beryl boat battled to save the life of senior worker Joshua Aryeetey after he plunged into the Atlantic off the coast of Shetland on February 10. However, the 47-year-old, from Ghana, died after he spent nearly an hour in the icy waters.SFF chief exec Bertie Armstrong has said that the only thing the crew failed on was getting him out of the water in time,,, Read the article here 07:47

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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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