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N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries meeting May 29-30,

May 29, 2013 Mid Atlantic

A report on seafood landings for 2012 will be given during the upcoming meeting of the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. The commission will meet today and Thursday, May 29-30, at the Crystal Coast Civic Center in Morehead City. The meeting begins at 6 tonight, May 29 and 9 a.m. Thursday and is open to the public. A presentation of the 2012 commercial and recreational landings will be made. continued

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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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