Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meeting January 25 – 28, 2016 in Orange Beach, Alabama

January 24, 2016 Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will meet January 25 – 28, 2016, at the Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach, Alabama. Committee meetings will convene Monday at 8:30 am, concluding at 10:30 am Wednesday. The full Council will convene Wednesday morning beginning at 10:45 am. The Council is expected to adjourn by 4:00 pm Thursday. Council meetings are open to the public and are broadcast live over the internet. To register for the webinar, click here Read the agenda here 12:57

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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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