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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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The depths to which our so called leaders in government have sunk to ruin this industry is disgusting. This expose’ is a roadmap into just what greed will do to people from within our federal agencies and out.
This whole thing sickens me and should sicken anyone else who has been affected by the fallout from the scheming and conniving of these wretched bastards.
These people are not fishermen or industry leaders. They are no good backstabbing sellout pieces of shit who will ruin their neighbors for their own gain and smile at you, all while sticking a knife in your back.
They all should be taken out behind the wood shed and shown a lesson in humility.
If nothing further comes of these kinds of discoveries I fear that not only is this industry doomed, but we as a nation are doomed as well.
This tangled web of deceit and illegal wrong doing had better be investigated and people had better end up in jail.
Where are our leaders?