East Hampton Star Editorial board spins – “The Right’s War On Science”

December 20, 2015 Mid Atlantic

The East Hampton Star ran an editorial titled “The Right’s War On Science”, an extremist political rant regarding science denial. They listed plenty of examples like the 97% of scientist believe, Mitch McConnell, Bill McKibben founder of the 350.org campaign, and the like, then use the House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources field hearing on Atlantic fisheries in Riverhead as another example of denial of certain elected representatives regarding NOAA fish science. It is obvious the East Hampton Star has not been listening to local fishermen when they defend NOAA, like Rep Representative Jared Huffman( D-San Rafael) does. Read the editorial here 10:20

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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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