BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill draws wide array of comments on 3rd anniversary – “They’re caused by human and organizational malfunctions.”

April 20, 2013 Gulf of Mexico

A variety of elected officials and representatives of industry and environmental organizations are marking Saturday’s third anniversary of the blowout of the BP Macondo well. The explosion and fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and injured dozens more, starting a three-month uncontrolled release of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico. continued

“They’re caused by human and organizational malfunctions.” NOAA Inaction in the Gulf of Mexico Nils Stolpe FishNet USA link

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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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