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Opinion – Justice Gorsuch’s book of fish tales

August 23, 2024 National

Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch worries about big government. About agencies that overreach and infringe the rights of unwary and unsophisticated individuals. About using the overwhelming force of criminal law to bludgeon relatively minor wrongdoers. About the federal government supplanting the power of state and local governments that are closer to the needs of their citizens. If “Over Ruled” has a hero and heroine, they are John and Sandra Yates, a Florida couple whose story is threaded through its pages. Chapter 1 opens with the harrowing tale of Sandra Yates doing laundry one morning in 2010 when “seven agents in bulletproof vests, hands primed on holstered guns,” approached her Anna Maria Island bungalow. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 08:54

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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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