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UPDATED: Searchers recover 11 more bodies – Hopes fade for 50 fishermen missing in freezing Bering Sea

December 2, 2014 National

More than 50 fishermen are still missing after their ship sank amid high waves in the freezing waters of the western Bering Sea on Monday, South Korean officials say. Seven crew members were rescued and one body has been recovered, but weather and water conditions complicated the search for the others, an official from the South Korean fisheries and oceans ministry said. Read the rest here 21:34 Read the update here 12/3/2014 13:37:29

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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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