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Fishermen say communities back their fight against new regulation

December 2, 2015 International News

Fishermen have received backing from communities on the Clyde after warning their livelihoods are at risk from proposed regulation, an industry body has said. The Clyde Fishermen’s Association (CFA) has hosted meetings to make the public aware of the effect of changes to the management of marine protection areas () and a planned regulating order. The association claims the new rules will economically damage villages and towns dependent on fishing. Read the article here 17:20

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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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