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Gillnetter F/V Native Son II ‘in the right place at the right time’

August 5, 2015 New England

They had been fishing off of Boston for groundfish in state waters on Monday morning and the day was just about over for the crew of the Native Son II as the 40-foot gillnetter made its way through the glistening late-summer sunshine back into Gloucester Harbor. Little did Capt. Chris Chadwick and his crew realize they were about to be drawn into a real-life drama in which they’d eventually come to play the pivotal role of Good Samaritans. Read the rest here 07:58

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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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