Starr Campbell says Support your local lobstermen

December 9, 2017 New England

A recent article in the Reporter focused on an issue concerning our local lobstermen. Apparently, many of them are feeling “left out in the cold” due to complaints from neighbors regarding the storage of ” unsightly traps” on their property. We must not forget that Marblehead was founded by those hardy souls who went out for fish & eventually for lobsters. While their numbers are smaller now & Marblehead is more diversified we should not lose sight of the fact that it is because of them & their predecessors that Marblehead has thrived. click here to read the letter 10:45

Marblehead lobstermen frustrated by lack of storage options – click here to read the story

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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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