The Maine Department of Marine Resources will give an update next week on how striped bass are faring in Maine’s waters and along the coast. Tuesday’s presentation will include a discussion of research by the Department of Marine Resources on the abundance of juvenile striped bass and the tagging program. The free event will begin at 6 p.m. at the Log Cabin, at 196 Main St. in Yarmouth. Read more here
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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