Fairhaven man, New Bedford father-daughter harvest the conch

December 17, 2017 New England

A rugged and hearty soul, Bobby Sakwa of Fairhaven, a fixture at Hoppy’s Landing on the West Island Causeway, bears the character, weathered hands and ruddy face of a man who has eked out a living from the sea for a half a century. When he’s not lobstering from his 35-foot Novi, a timeless classic also bearing the scars of a vessel that has earned its keep on the ocean for 50 years, Bobby is running conch pots. George Smith, a native of Nova Scotia who owns Big G Seafood together with his daughter Heather Haggarty has been in the business of processing conch meat just shy of 40 years. Photo gallery, click here to read the story 08:40

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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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