The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has unveiled the latest update to its Status of the World Fisheries for Tuna report and it is unprecedentedly tracking the adoption of reference points and harvest control rules (HCRs) for the world’s 23 commercially fished tuna stocks (six albacore, four bigeye, four bluefin, five skipjack and four yellowfin stocks). Lottsa Walmart money behind the scenes! continued
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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