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Brian J. Rothschild to Testify at MSA Reauthoization Listening Session: Mon. 11/4 in Boston

November 1, 2013 National, New England

Senator Warren and Senator Begich’s offices have announced that the MSA Reauthorization hearing has been rescheduled for this coming Monday, November 4th. CSF’s President and CEO, Brian J. Rothschild, has accepted an invitation from Senator Warren’s office to testify at the hearing about the MSA Reauthorization. The meeting is open to the public and is first come, first served for seating. The listening session will be comprised of two panels. The first panel will be composed of members of fishing industry and fishing shore side businesses. The second panel will consist of members of the local marine science community. Read more @publicnotices 15:28

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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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