Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meeting in Biloxi, MS, October 17 – 21, 2016

October 16, 2016 Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will meet at the IP Casino & Resort, 850 Bayview Avenue, Biloxi, MS. 39530 Ballroom B, October 17- 20, 2016. View Agenda here View Briefing Book here Register for Webinar here Register for the Post Council Wrap-up Webinar here 18:00

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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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