As crab season gets closer, Labrador harvesters worry about their health amid Coronavirus pandemic

April 26, 2020 Canada, International News

Crab fisherman Joey Angnatok has been fishing since the mid-’90s and he’s worried not only for his health but also his crew members’ health. “Let’s just say an observer was on board your boat last week, and then he comes on my boat and we find out that one of your crew members had the sickness,” said Angnatok. “There’s so much uncertainty you drive yourself crazy trying to think about all the possibilities.” Last weekend, the provincial Fish Harvesting Safety Association released 12 control measures to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 while fishing. >click to read< 10:02

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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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