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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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Coast Guard medevacs fisherman 50 miles E of Chincoteague, VA
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Markey eyes fishing, opposes NOAA aquaculture “when it is failing its core fisheries mission to restore wild stocks, like cod, haddock and flounder.”
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Savannah McDormand, 20, mourned after Westport fishing boat death
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Deadliest Catch Captain Keith Colburn pays tribute to six fisherman lost in the Bering Sea
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Wonder why your progressive friends are loony? Read this! Humans Are Overfishing the Oceans Into ‘Unprecedented’ Mass Extinction
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NOAA hosting open house of Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute
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California Dungeness crab season faces delays in parts of state
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New fishing regulations seek to limit whale, dolphin deaths
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Sanford fined for crew member’s ‘avoidable’ death
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Unfounded Environmentalist Dogma Overshadows DFO Mackerel Meeting
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