Norman Bonnell has no idea who would do such a thing. The Forrester’s Point fisherman had over 400 lobster pots placed near Eddies Cove West. When he checked them on Monday December 14, he found 52 of them severely damaged. He says they were “smashed in”. To say the least, he is not happy. “Who would be crazy enough to do something like that?” he asked. “And nobody else’s traps were touched.” Bonnell brought the matter to the RCMP immediately. Read the article here 10:23
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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