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Catch Shares for Central Gulf of Alaska Trawl Groundfish Fisheries? Control Date December 31, 2012, for Qualifying Landings

January 5, 2013 North Pacific

The National Marine Fisheries Service published its intention to work on rationalization for central Gulf of Alaska trawl groundfish fisheries in the federal register Dec. 26. The Dec. 31 control date was set by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. As the council considers a catch share program for the central Gulf of Alaska, the date will be used to determine catch history. The council has discussed rationalizing the fishery to slow down the fishery and better enable the trawl fleet to minimize bycatch. Read the Register. Alaska Journal

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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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