telegram.com – Jason Colby, a charter boat captain who specializes in flounder fishing there, has fished the harbor dozens of times this season, coming home disappointed, depressed and infuriated. A confrontation between recreational and commercial interests seems imminent. continued
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
Captain Colby emailed me the guest editorial the week prior explaining the situation in the port he fishes out in Quincy Harbor. He has been the last man standing in the area and is just looking for responsible fishing management from the NEFMC as the blackback stock continues to rebuild.