Fisherman pulls in Florida university’s drone, but the school won’t pay, suit claims

May 9, 2019 South Atlantic

Eric Cziraky was fishing for dolphin about three miles off the Boynton Beach Inlet when he hooked into an expensive, high-tech whopper. His catch? An 11-foot underwater drone that Florida Atlantic University researchers were using to explore the mysteries of the deep.,,, Under centuries-old admiralty laws, Cziraky is entitled to be compensated for rescuing a vessel that was in peril, said attorney Matthew Charles, who filed a federal lawsuit this week on Cziraky’s behalf. >click to read<09:23

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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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