Another ‘Shark Tank’ success story is headed to Nashville

December 17, 2015 New England

Love seafood and reality TV? Nashville is about to get a food truck that’s right up your alley. Cousins Maine Lobster, a lobster-focused food truck company that landed a deal with Barbara Corcoran on ABC’s “Shark Tank in 2012, will soon be rolling in Nashville. Craig Betts and Quinn Raines, the local franchisees, plan to launch the first Middle Tennessee truck this April, Betts said. “It’s going to be a unique product to this market, it’s hard to find any good quality seafood here,” said Betts, a West Coast native. Read the article here 10:42

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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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