White House, Greens target Atlantic fishing grounds

January 20, 2016 New England

Fishermen and seafood-dependent communities in New England are battening down the hatches, fearing that an Obama administration move to create a giant Atlantic Marine Monument will spell the end to their way of life. Led by Earthjustice, the Conservation Law Center, Natural Resources Defense Council, National Geographic Society, and the Pew Charitable Trust, environmentalists are urging the White House to use the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate a 6,000-square-mile area in the and off the coast of Massachusetts as a National Monument. Read the rest here 09:25

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2 Responses to White House, Greens target Atlantic fishing grounds

Rocky Novello says:

January 21, 2016 at 11:16 am

Environmentalists did a great job ? ? , DESTROYING THE LIVELY-HOOD OF MANY NEW ENGLAND FISHERMEN ! Now , I wish these groups , JUST DO THEIR JOB !! , start working on cleaning up the pollution of our oceans of this world , not just U.S. WATERS .
AFTER ALL ,WHO WOULD WANT TO GO TO A POLLUTED
MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT ???

TO ALL ENVIRONMENTALISTS , SLEEP GOOD TONIGHT AND STOP DESTROYING AND START WORKING ON THE POLLUTION PROBLEM WHICH MUST BE YOUR NO. 1 PRIORITY ???? OF OUR WORLD ?

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MIGHTYJ says:

January 21, 2016 at 8:50 pm

Obama sucks if he lets them talk him into this crap.

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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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