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40 years on, Manny Silva remembers towing Jaws behind his boat

June 13, 2015 New England

At 83 years old, Manny Silva has done a lot — including towing a 22-foot-long mechanical shark around on the set of the movie “Jaws” over forty years ago. The retired commercial fisherman is full of stories from his time working the make the South Coast-based movie, which marked its 40th anniversary June 1. Silva said one of the funniest days was the time he accidentally flipped the cameraman — camera and all — into the water. Read the rest here 11:03

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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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