CBC News – Fishermen in New Brunswick are warning that a bill before Maine’s legislature to allow bycatch lobster caught in trawling nets be sold by fishermen who otherwise would have to throw them back could be abused. continued
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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
I’m trying to learn about these Canadian issues, but must rely on the Canadian press, because I’ve not found any independent writers that cover these issue’s.
That said, whoever put the footage into the video showing a factory trawler in three hundred foot range sure is confused about the ground fish industry in Maine.
A question.
Is the outrageous abundance of lobster everywhere a by product of good stewardship, with detrimental affects to the fin fisheries like cod?