Ventura County Fishermen find a body at sea believed to be missing Commercial Fisherman

April 6, 2016 Pacific

Fisherman Moody Brickett thought the object caught in a boat’s net late Monday afternoon was a decomposed seal. It was a human body. Brickett and his friends are convinced they know who it is, though Ventura County authorities have not confirmed the identification. On the last Friday of February, Vietnamese commercial fisherman Tra Nguyen searched for ridgeback prawns at sea between the Ventura and Santa Barbara harbors. He and his deckhand, Dinh Nguyen, pulled up the last catch of the day. The boat was listing because of an empty starboard fuel tank. It began to tip after being struck by a wave, according to Dinh Nguyen, who survived. Read the rest here 13:04

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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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