Published on Apr 7, 2013
Dr. Ray Hilborn from the University of Washington, provides some eye-opening facts about our fisheries, some of the misperceptions about fishing being unsustainable, and the environmental impact of fishing versus agriculture and farming.
If you’re wondering whether the oceans can continue to be fished, you need to see this
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
Thank God for Ray Hiborn (and Brian Rothschild, Nils Stolpe, Seth Macinko,etc.) Thinkers with integrity who can see clearly.
Daniel Pauly and Boris Worm should be ashamed.
Thank you for posting Hilborn’s lecture, Borehead.
And if anyone knows the email address for any of the EDF brilliants on the “ocean team” please get this Hilborn lecture to them; they seem to be embarrassingly lost.
Pauly and Worm are Pew grant harvesters
.http://www.fishtruth.net/Pauly
.htmhttp://www.fishtruth.net/Connections.htm
I think that toad Peter Shelley should be video boarded with this.
Unscrupulous bastard.