Fishermen, read this very carefully. Offshore wind is cutting edge – Hannah C. Wood is project coordinator of Cape Wind in Boston.

June 3, 2013 Offshore Wind/Industrialization

Cape Wind will help lead the development of a new sustainable industry for Cape Cod and the Islands. The commonwealth of Massachusetts has identified a site south of the Islands that could fit 10 projects the size of Cape Wind. Development of this site would lead to the creation of thousands of new jobs. (where do you fit in? YOU DON”T!) continued

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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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