5703bda68278a.image
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
-
Recent Posts
-
Fake ‘Green’ Energy: So Much Spent On Wind & Solar For So Little Return
-
Cod prohobition imperils deep-sea fishing charter businesses
-
Asian Carp vs. Commercial Fishermen: 2.5M lbs of now out of Illinois
-
Remembering the Klamath River fish kill of 2002 – Dan Bacher
-
North Carolina’s seafood industry is in crisis
-
Ropeless Fishing! Marina firm develops tech that could help whale entanglement
-
Volusia planning artificial reefs a mile from shore
-
Gulf Grouper Group Gropes for Stable Sustainable Quota
-
Norway Battling ‘Russian Invasion’ of Salmon, Fishermen Urged to Kill ‘Occupiers’
-
The New Green Activists Would Rather Save The Windmills Than Save The Whales
-
Sturgeon’s designation had minimal data, major impacts – Debate growing over fish’s label as endangered
-
Tin Can Bay businessman rejects recreational fisherman’s call for net fishing ban
-
Abandon LIFO: Fishermen ask for new deal on shrimp
-
Lobster season opens with lower catches, $7 shore price
-
New Bedford to unveil Fishermen’s Tribute Monument at 6 p.m. June 30 in Tonneson Park
-
Killybegs-Based Fishing Reps say Norway is Holding EU Fishing Deals to Ransom
-
107 lobster traps set in closed area seized, DFO investigation continuing
-
UPDATE: Coast Guard crews suspend the search for fisherman Gary Ketlehut near Egmont Key, Fla.
-
Pacific Danger and Dungeness
-
Best boot? A commercial fisherman’s likes and dislikes.
-
Lobster industry supports emergency closures along Kaikoura coastline
-
SIGN THE PETITION Support the North Carolina Shrimp Fishermen Fight another Closure.
-
Feds say no to fish-kill preventive water releases from Trinity Lake used to cool the Klamath and Trinity rivers
-
After a dramatic decline, lake trout have recovered in most of Lake Superior
-
Abandoned and adrift, North Pacific fishing vessel will be sunk by Coast Guard
-
Leave a Reply