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‘Inspirational’ Colin builds boat for Bardsey Island crossings

April 14, 2021 International News

Colin Evans, who lives in Uwchmynydd, has crafted the boat in his workshop. Two years of planning and another two years of hard work have gone into the project. In addition to being an island ferry, it can be used as a high-speed inshore fishing boat or platform service vessel. There is a high demand for this class of craft and the moulds now permit easy re-production. The boat has just been rolled out of the production shed, where final fitting out is taking place >click to read<20:04

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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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