Questioning the Captain’s decision

February 27, 2013 Canada, National

What were they doing out there is those weather conditions?

It’s a question being asked over and over again in communities from Neils Harbour to Wood Harbour, as Nova Scotians try to come to grips with the death of five young fishermen.

At the same time, that same question was asked repeatedly at a U.S. Coast Guard board of inquiry in Portsmouth, Virginia into the sinking of the tall ship HMS Bounty.

Under scrutiny: the actions of a captain barely out of high school and a captain who had decades of experience sailing the high seas. Read more

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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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