April 17, 2013 — We invite you to participate in a Workshop hosted by the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute (MFI) on “Incorporating Environmental Change in Assessments and Management” on May 7-8 at the UMass Sch
ool for Marine Science & Technology in Fairhaven MA (Room 158 on 2nd floor. Thanks, Steve Cadrin and Brian Rothschild 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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