The fish plant in North Lake is preparing to open again with new owners who plan to employ about 100 people. The 13-year-old plant, which had changed ownership and closed a few times in the past five years, was recently purchased by a California-based company. continue reading
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
Jack Quinn and all the former liars, cut throats and suckholes who were employed at Mariner should be kept as far away as possible from any fishplant. You all know who you are.