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The real Fisherman’s Wharf: An addiction to the sea

October 19, 2015 Pacific

Sandquist, a commercial fisherman, sips his whiskey and beer and looks out the window. He just returned from a trip to Monterey after the commercial anchovy fishing season closed. His stress level is noticeably lower, but his mind has still been on fishing — thinking about which crew member picked up the fish scraps the other morning for the upcoming crab season. His fishing obsession started when he was young. He would set bait traps with cat food he bought at a local pet store and sell them for a quarter apiece to the bait shop. Video, Read the rest here 09:47

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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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