The fishermen’s filmmaker

July 21, 2016 Mid Atlantic

Dave Kaltenbach has been capturing the Viking Village fishing fleet on video and in his art for years. He has several videos he has made on Long Beach Island, including one on the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. His most recent film, “Yesterday’s Fish, Today’s Challenges,” was show at the Lighthouse International Film Festival on Long Beach Island in June. It tells the long history of the fishing port of Barnegat Light, now commonly known as Viking Village. A longtime resident of Barnegat Light, now living in North Carolina, he considers himself the “Filmmaker for the Fisherman,” despite having made movies, documentaries on a variety of subjects, as well as commercial and music videos. “Capt. John Larson got me involved with filming the fishermen 18 years ago,” he said recently. Read the story here 17:23

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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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