After selling millions of bacon-wrapped scallops in Canada last year, Clearwater Seafoods Inc. is launching a new value-added product aimed at both the domestic and U.S. markets that it’s hoping will prove just as popular with re
staurateurs as ordinary people rushing to get dinner on the table. Clearwater is the largest holder of shellfish licences and quotas in Canada. Read more
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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