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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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Ocean Resource Privatization

Articles Posted by Date

The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

Recent Posts

Alaska Fish Factor: Good Science Should Drive Fisheries Policy

Storm Kathleen ties up Irish trawlers amid lucrative prawn fishery

Pope Francis Laments ‘Tragic’ Shipwreck of F/V Villa de Pitanxo

Clearwater Seafoods Launches New Argentine Scallop Harvesting Vessel

Stock Assessment Prioritization: Guiding decisions on which fish stocks to assess

Jersey fishing community’s fight for revival after storm

Endangered Species Act (ESA) Congressional Working Group releases final report & recommendations

‘Criminalising fishermen is one of the most appalling things any Government or body could do to its own people.’

Urbon: “Lost at Sea: The Human Cost of Fishing,” tells tragic side of fishing

Smoke-filled rooms

Arrests and seizures – DFO releases another 2,500 pounds of lobster into Digby harbor!

Zinke acknowledges opposition to oil, Feds seek offshore wind off NY/ NJ, 2 areas off Mass available

Crab Command and Control – California Dungeness Crab Fishing Gear Working Group

Fishing fund hires ex-AG for probe

Trading Salmon for Almonds

Bumper Tasmanian scallop season expected

Baltimore researchers turn carnivorous fish into vegetarians

New England Fishing Culture

Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Price Sheet for August 2018 Has Arrived!

Courts threaten to sink federal fishery monitoring

Three generations of the Hamada family have fished British Columbia’s coast. Will the latest outlive the salmon they seek?

North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for June 30, 2017

B.C. crab fishermen losing money as season opens late

Navitus Bay Wind Park – The Community Wins.

Lack of Nation to Nation relationship between the Canadian Government and Indigenous fishermen causes conflict

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