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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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While any loss is a tragedy, the way you presented the incidents, by percentages, in no way conveys the actual numbers of incidents or takes! Please provide us with actual or estimated numbers, if at all possible, rather than leave us with an unknown.
“The relative number of mortalities &/or births given in terms of percentages, does not provide us with a real or clear understanding, therefore the impacts to the species are not truly known, & understandable!”
Jim Kendall – NBSC
Sept. 1, 2016