N.C. Sea Grant Programs try to aid industry

March 16, 2013 Mid Atlantic

When it comes to the future of commercial fishing, for Warren Judge, Outer Banks Catch chairman, the current commercial fishing regulations, with strict limits and season closures, are the biggest concern. Mr. Judge said if the industry stays on “the current course of regulatory strangulation, the future looks bleak.” “But I’ve got to believe that working with our elected officials, we can make them see commercial fishing creates jobs and is important to North Carolina heritage,” he said. 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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