Of the millions of cod caught in Newfoundland and Labrador waters in the past 500 years, few have stood out in any special way from all the rest. However, that may have changed on August 31, 2012 when Gerry King from Badger’s Quay caught a cod – cod 017 – on Ireland Shoal, which is about 20 nautical miles from his community. continued@ the coaster
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
