Now this is Real Environmentalism in it’s purest form – Volunteers needed for herring run cleanup April 6

March 12, 2013 New England, Uncategorized

Weymouth Ma — The turnout of volunteers for the annual spring cleanup of the herring channel in East Weymouth has grown since its inception in 1988, and helpers who complete the work April 6 won’t leave hungry according to

Weymouth Herring Run warden George Loring. Loring said in prior years the volunteers have removed a variety of items like washing machines, shopping carts, car engines, batteries, bicycles and skateboards from the channel. Continued

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One Response to Now this is Real Environmentalism in it’s purest form – Volunteers needed for herring run cleanup April 6

jj says:

March 12, 2014 at 4:09 pm

Another way they control blockage of this river is by treating it with plankton killing herbicides ironically killing the food source of the fish they hope to save and possibly poisoning the eggs.

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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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