A Question that Demands a Better Response Than What Was Recieved. – The Free Press

October 2, 2012 New England

This second writing for the Free Press finds me at a place that forces me to revisit my article for the First Edition.

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The New England Fishery Management Council began its three day meeting in Plymouth Ma on 9/25/2012.

As is typical of bureaucratic meetings, this one was spiked with some, at times, semi excitement, and threats.

The New England Fishery Management Council approved a motion to allow groundfishermen access to large areas off-limits to fishing.

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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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