Alaska wary of federal push for marine aquaculture. Everyone should be.
During a recent stop in Juneau, NOAA Fisheries chief Chris Oliver said that wild seafood harvests alone can’t keep up with rising global demand. But there’s another way. “Aquaculture is going to be where the major increases in seafood production occur whether it happens in foreign countries or in United States waters,” Oliver told a room of fishermen, seafood marketing executives and marine scientists.,,, There’s a bill pending in the U.S. Senate that could decide how federal aquaculture is regulated. It’s being backed by an industry group called Stronger America Through Seafood. >click to read<20:58
Are you trying to control catching sea food? How about controlling Sea Lions, whom are eating the hell out of our Salmon at an astonishing rate. You made a law to protect the Seals and now there are so many lazy Sea Lions the bask in our bays eating us out of Salmon and other fish depleting to the verge of extension. OPEN season on them and make cat food out of them. Do the sensible thing.
Aw, Chris…when you took this job some of us thought that you might have enough intellectual/political/scientific integrity to do something positive for this constantly scapegoated and very diminished domestic fishing industry.
From the article below: “During a recent stop in Juneau, NOAA Fisheries chief Chris Oliver said that wild seafood harvests alone can’t keep up with rising global demand. But there’s another way.
“Aquaculture is going to be where the major increases in seafood production occur whether it happens in foreign countries or in United States waters,” Oliver told a room of fishermen, seafood marketing executives and marine scientists. Those statements are right out of the corporate eminent domain, ocean-grab playbook!
Hey Chris, why don’t you work at establishing some intelligent fisheries management through co-governanace, effective cooperative research, and reasonably accurate stock assessments? And, while you’re at it, as Director, why not work to change the posture of management as existing, principally, as a bulwark to stop the lawless domestic fishermen in their quest to “catch the last fish”? Get rid of the non-sensical, politically motivated, choking regulations this industry struggles under as it is pushed aside for the corporate takeover of the ocean (i.e., oil/gas, wind, aquaculture)! Now, that would be a National Marine Fisheries SERVICE!
Then, non-pesticide, non-antibiotic, non-GMO’d natural fish, raised by nature, not by bio-techy profiteers, will “be where the major increases in seafood production occur.”
Just watch the wild seafood harvests keep up with rising global demand—and sustainably, I might add.
Hooks and nets, if these two topics aren’t debate enough. Net industry has so much money from the exploitation of all stocks,.that isn’t bad these tyrants have corrupted government with billions of free flowing blood money. Bent against the (only sustainable industry) (hook and line).
As I keep wondering how the hell any reasonable government would set tight regulations on a HOOK. PERPOSTEROUS
Federal and state law have failed the American fisherman.this long list of government state and federal agency’s in fisheries management.(MEANING) definition the deliberate strangleing of any commercial fisherman,to force by any unreasonable method, KILLING OF AN AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE,and continued lobbying by these tyrant groups have killed someone you know !
While billions of THE PEOPLES MONEY CURCULATES THROUGH THE POCKETS OF ALL MEMBERS you know who you are . Your rein is over! EVERYONE READING MY MESSAGE DONT WORRY I WILL PUT AN END TO THIS JANKEY SLITHERING CORRUPTION, and the jailing of scum is the only option..
WHERE THE FUCK DID HONEST PEOPLE GO!.THIRD WOD COUNTRYS HAVE BETTER BOARD MEMBERS
RICHARD SHORE
FV Lady Kathy
I will devote my life to take you down!!!!! My kids don’t deserve this discrace
Thank you, Richard, I needed a dose of militancy today, and I support it.
Thanks for your reply, the reason I am bent is I sit here on my boat after loosing my house,because government won’t let me fish.but these processors are catching every fish in the ocean.
I will stop this nonsense farming a wild native fish,robbing nature and rivers of its fish for there financial gains.going ahead of nature to get a stronghold on a species,over and ahead of commercial fisherman. To starve us out of business.for our permits. They better have armed guards on these floating prisons! Because if it goes through fisherman will WAR ON EVERY PEN. Destroy my way of life.we will destroy there way of life.. eye for an eve pen pimps! One way or another fish will run. Up rivers!
Why can’t these tyrants stay with tilapia and trout!
Fight or flight and I have no wings bud!
Call them what they are Waste Water Production Facilities!!! No means No don’t RAPE our Oceans and other Waters!!! Obama stole our common property and for who’s benefit??? It has turned into Man hunting Man and it IS SUPPORTED BY TAX DODGING PHILANTROPIC ORGANIZATIONS!!! PINWHEELS AND TOILETS THAT’S RESPONSIBLE!!!
COMMON SENSE IS SO UNCOMMON!!!
Regards
–SBH–
Common sense is an evasive commodity these days, Striper, and its only a matter of time before they turn to the responsible people to usher in another industry that will displace fishermen. What are the motives?!!