10-year-old raises over KSh 339k for charity that helped find his lost fisherman dad

December 15, 2019 International News

When his father went missing overboard from a fishing boat in April 2016, Keiran was hopeful the coast guards and a team of volunteers would find him. However, the 10-year-old’s hopes were dashed after hours turned into days, weeks and eventually months before his father Craig Reid’s body was found. He then decided to raise thousands of pounds for the charity that had teamed up with the coast guards to look for Reid >click to read< 07:18

Craig Reid lost at sea, father Craig Reid, Keiran Reid, raises over KSh 339k for charity, Young Highlander Child Fundraiser Award

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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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