Ilwaco tuna fisherman Richard ‘Pat’ Patana – A man of the sea

December 19, 2015 Pacific

Richard “Pat” Patana is a man who seems comfortable with himself. A rangy man with a quick laugh, he’s been on the water, one way or another, most of his life. “My family were fishermen around here on both sides,” he says. “I didn’t have much choice.” Not that he’s always gone about things the way others might. Take, for example, his boat, Summer Breeze, which stands out from the other commercial fishing boats moored in the Ilwaco, Washington, harbor. Summer’s a pretty 54-foot motor sailboat and could pass for somebody’s yacht except for it businesslike looks. Read the article here 13:12

A man of the sea, Ilwaco tuna fisherman Richard ‘Pat’ Patana

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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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