Give the public answers on jellyfish proposal

March 25, 2013 South Atlantic

Proponents of a new jellyfish harvesting and processing industry in Beaufort County say they want to start fishing for the Asian delicacies by May. But that’s too fast. State environmental regulators say many questions remain unanswered. And the public first got wind of the proposal in early March. It needs more time to ask questions and give feedback. Cannonball jellyfish are the most common jellyfish in our waters, but they are not harvested or eaten here. In Asia, however, continue reading

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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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