HoumaToday – As he mourns the loss of a close friend claimed by the Gulf of Mexico, Golden Meadow fisherman Larry Moore said he won’t return to the commercial fishing business. Moore owned the Nite Owl, a fishing boat that sank Friday in the Gulf. Four of its five crew members are presumed dead. “To all the families of the guys that are gone, if I could trade places with any one of them, I would,” Moore said. 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
It is with regret that the captain chose to stay offshore knowing storm was coming causing the death of the captain and three others and all to put a fish on someone’s table to consume