Bodega Bay Fisherman’s Festival celebrates, blesses a busy fleet

April 11, 2016 Pacific

More than 20 vessels on Sunday were blessed by local clergy as part of the Bodega Bay Fisherman’s Festival, continuing a more than 50-year tradition in support of a key economic engine in this small coastal town. However, most commercial fishermen weren’t around to receive such divine words of encouragement. They instead were scrambling to make up for the late start to the Dungeness crab season, which began less than two weeks ago, instead of the typical starting time in mid-November. “Most of the (commercial) guys are fishing today. Video, photo’s, read the article here 16:12

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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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