31st annual N.C. Seafood Festival – It’s all about seafood

October 6, 2017 Mid Atlantic

Rides are up, tents pitched and flags hung high. Now it’s time to cook up some seafood. With preparation work done, the waterfront will soon be alive with the smells of freshly cooked, locally caught seafood, and the sounds of laughter and amusement during the 31st annual N.C. Seafood Festival. The festival starts today and rolls to Sunday. It focuses on the importance of local seafood caught off the coast of North Carolina. To celebrate the fishing industry, the festival boasts a weekend full of activities with free music, sporting events, games, rides, the Blessing of the Fleet ceremony and more. click here to read the story 13:04

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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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