Cape Cod Fishermen say seals are devastating fishing – “Make it a commercial venture.”

April 1, 2013 New England

The rebounding seal population won’t get a gold seal of approval from local fishermen.The population of gray seals around Nantucket Sound is rising 20 percent a year (according to Betty Lentell of the Woods Hole Oceanogr

aphic Institute) to an estimated 15,000 but that’s the wrong direction as far as some fishermen are concerned. “Just the day before yesterday I came around Monomoy Point and counted no less than 4,000 seals hauled out on the beach,” fisherman Bill Amaru said. “They were 15 to 20 deep in one section more than a quarter mile long.” continued

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April 1, 2013 at 4:49 pm

But Greg Early of the New England Aquarium is skeptical that culling the seal population with bring back fading fish populations.

“Canada has a culling program on the books. There’s never been demonstrated evidence it has improved the fishery,” Early remarked. “I can’t find such a paper. What if it doesn’t work that way? I’m a skeptic. Before I go pulling the plug on a population I want to know more about it.”

Well, Greg! Tell us something we don’t expect you to say!
Of course you’re skeptical. That’s your job. That’s what you do!

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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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