ANALYSIS: NY Times Blog Post Misleads Readers on New England Habitat Closed Area Changes

March 14, 2013 National, New England

WASHINGTON (Saving Seafood) 13 March 2012 — The New York Times, in a recent blog post, fails to accurately describe the original rationale of the New England / Georges Bank closed areas, and does little to explain the credible science backing the New England Fishery Management Council’s decision-making. Many of the closed areas in question don’t actually protect marine habitats, because they were never designed to do so. Instead, they’re the vestiges of a phased-out system of management that limited fishing effort, and are redundant under current regulations. continue

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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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