Some salty sailors out of Gloucester faced an unsavory fate Whose fraternal hearty shipmates lost at sea numbered 5,368. From 1866-1890 2,450 fishermen and 380 schooners were lost Italian, Canadian, West Indian and Portuguese souls ships were tempest-tossed. continue, and thank you Stu.
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
An heartfelt and insightful historically based fishermen prose of our beloved New England ground fishery. Shame is, that it is forgotten by those fishery-puppeteers who operate within the NOAA/NMFS puzzle palace.