Dockside killing in Kodiak – Washington man charged with 1st Degree murder

February 8, 2016 North Pacific, Pacific

One 28-year-old fisherman is dead and another is in custody after an early Sunday shooting in Kodiak’s Saint Herman Harbor. Kodiak police were notified of the shooting in the Saint Herman Harbor area at around 12:40 a.m. Sunday morning. There, officers found an unresponsive male with multiple gunshot wounds, police wrote in a statement Sunday. Medics transported the 28-year-old victim to Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center where he was later pronounced deceased, KPD said. The victim has not yet been identified pending notification of family members. “Police took 28 year-old Matt Bowe, from Washington state into custody and have charged him with murder in the first degree,” Kodiak police wrote. Link 11:36

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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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