State House News Q & A with Markey and Gomez – Markey inconsistent on fishery issues, and we already knew he was in the Cape Win pocket.
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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
As noted in the GDT: May 15, 2013 – “Markey was the only member of the Massachusetts congressional delegation with a district that opens to the sea not to support a catch share cutoff budget amendment” …and for the life of me, what kind of answer is this to the question: “What past or current Supreme Court justice is the paragon example of what a judge should be”, and he makes this statement: “Justice Stephen Breyer, whose aggressive focus on substantive data as support for his decisions has been an enduring contribution to the Court.” What the heck is he talking about?
People of Massachusetts, fishermen, flush the toilet when you have politicians like Ed Markey for not only making these type of statements, but who have supported the anti-fishermen Catch Shares program.