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Gloucester: City seeks consensus on aid for fishing, port

January 25, 2014 New England

These days, the view for fishing industry stakeholders and Gloucester’s elected officials is from the very belly of the beast. And that is hardly ever the optimum vantage point. “We know we need to develop a comprehensive plan that will allow us to capitalize fully on the disaster aid money that comes here,” Kirk said. “The plan will pick up after that money is distributed.” Read more@gdt 05:36

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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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