Wassup – Fishing boat seized by RCMP major crimes unit in case of missing boater

June 3, 2013 Canada

An RCMP major crimes unit seized a fishing boat in Petit de Grat on Sunday and questioned the crew in connection with a confrontation on the water early Saturday morning. Phillip Joseph Boudreau, 43, was the lone occupant of a small boat and is believed to have been confronted by a group of fishermen in a fishing boat just off the coast of Petit de Grat. As for suggestions from some local residents that the confrontation stemmed from an argument over lobsters or lobster traps, continued

confronted by a group of fishermen, Phillip Joseph Boudreau, RCMP major crimes unit seized a fishing boat

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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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