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Despite early start to Alaska king salmon runs, biologists not convinced slump is over

June 16, 2014 North Pacific

Alaska anglers optimistic about promising early king salmon returns on many rivers — after years of disappearing fish — may want to temper any warm, fuzzy feelings about the largest of the state’s salmon. While some waterways are seeing an increase in chinook salmon returns compared to last year, biologists stress it’s too early to say if the current numbers will be sustained the rest of the season. Read more here 12:36

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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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