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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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The book sounds wonderful…but please stop fostering the idea that the fish are now all gone. “But that way of life could not be sustained with the development of technology that brought in fish in quantities never before imagined.” That’s simply no longer true—if it ever was! That is mostly an eco-NGO “overfishing” talking point.
At any rate, fish are more plentiful now than ever, and it is not helping anyone—including the fish—to leave the general impression that the stocks are in bad shape! What needs to be said is that the regulations are outdated and based on stale and inaccurate science. The fish come and go and have done for eons; currently the stocks are healthy and abundant in the Gulf of Maine and on Georges Bank and in Southern New England.
The defensive and unwieldy bloated management bureaucracy is either unable or unwilling to ease the regulations and recognize the cooperative research submitted by the U Mass. School for Marine Science and Technology which documents the health of these important stocks. Archaic and ridiculously constricting federal regulations, steered by anti-fishing lawsuit happy “conservationist” law firms, coupled with the corporate sponsored privatization and commoditization scheme of “catch shares” are the factors that are dismantling this industry— the “steady and inexorable” coastal fishing industry’s “crash” and “collapse” is certainly not due to the lack of fish.
And the loss of these vital clean food producing, independent, local family fishing operations is occurring not only in the Port of Gloucester, but also in New Bedford, Point Judith, Montauk, and up and down the East Coast and throughout the entire domestic fishing industry.