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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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Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Preferred Price List for December 16, 2015
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Sympathy to new state Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife director
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Survey may eventually help NOAA’s reputation
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Billionaire Penny Pritzker, daughter of the co-founder of the Hyatt hotel chain and a real estate investor, pick for Commerce Secretary.
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Maine: Midcoast researchers prepare for new battle with invasive green crabs
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Manatee History Matters: Female fishermen of early Cortez
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Fire rips through Nautical Seafoods Ltd. seafood processing plant in – the community’s only year-round employer
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Congress Proposes Relaxing Sea Lion Protections
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Some buyers shelling out more than $1M for lobster boat, license
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Continental divide? Building the Fishery Bridge from New England to Alaska – Sharing concerns for fisheries
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