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Plymouth fishermen accuse German warships of destroying their crabbing pots

November 6, 2015 International News

TWO fishermen from Plymouth say their livelihoods have been “ruined” after two German naval vessels allegedly destroyed their crabbing pots. Brothers Brian and Lee Tapper estimate more than £8,000 worth of damage has been done after pulling their broken pots up from the sea bed two weeks ago.Devastated by the discovery, the pair have accused German supply ships Die Bonn and Frankfurt Am Main of tearing through the pots and dragging them almost three miles from their location. Read the rest here 16:02

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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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