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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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‘Perfectly reasonable’ to drill for oil in area closed to fishery, Liberal MP says
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Coast Guard hoists injured fisherman from vessel 20 miles off Florence, Ore.
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FFAW, FISH-NL at odds over what Fisheries Act amendments will mean for N.L.’s inshore fishery
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Department of Justice: Halliburton agrees to plead guilty in spill
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A poaching commercial fishing captain who reeled in hundreds of yellowtail snapper from a marine reserve get’s jail time
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Bay-Delta Water Case Against EPA Advances
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