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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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Magnuson-Stevens – Editorial: At 40, landmark fishery law needs revamping
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F/V Scandies Rose: Coast Guard searching for crew members of crab vessel that sank in Gulf of Alaska
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Groundfishermen not hooked by monitoring alternatives
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Fishermen, activists protest offshore wind farms near Montauk, cite recent whale deaths
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Congress Questions US Green Group’s Ties To The Chinese Government
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Greenland killer whale butchering in photo posted on Facebook
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Dauphin River fishery blames Manitoba for flood damage
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North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for September 15, 2017
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