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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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RESCHEDULED: South Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting in Charleston, September 30 – October 5, 2018
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Petition: Revoke Jim Pattison’s Canfisco’s parasitic monopoly of fishing licenses
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Great Yarmouth fisherman swaps shrimp for offshore wind
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Maine Lobstermen pack Augusta hearing on controversial proposed licensing changes
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Our View: Commerce Department’s release of report would help heal relationship with fishermen SouthCoastToday
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Ronald Sparrow, defendant in major Indigenous rights case, has died
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Review and Comments on “Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act”.
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Speed limits, snow crab season changes coming to help save the whales
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Federal Jury Convicts Montauk Fisherman
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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Proposed Management Measures for the 2013 Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Recreational Fisheries
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North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for November 8, 2019
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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, OCT 11, 2015
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