A Funding Push for Matthew Raynors Home Health Aide, his loving mother! Please! Step Up!

September 10, 2019 Mid Atlantic

Matt Raynor, 29, of Hampton Bays sustained a serious spinal cord injury in April, and is paralyzed from the chest down. A commercial fisherman, world traveler, artist, photographer, and all-around cool dude, Matt has fallen through the cracks of our health care system. He has moved back in with his mother, but she is his ONLY care provider, day in, day out. They need your help if you can give it! >click to read, and donate if you can< Click to read the original post from May 30, 2019, >click to read< 12:36

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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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