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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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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Gloucester Daily Times Editorial: Fishing disaster’s unseen casualties – Are our lawmakers truly listening?
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Letters signal preventative strike against NOAA fishing measures
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Open Letter to Presidential Candidates on Saving the Oceans: Industrial Fishing Must Be Banned to Stave Off Wholesale Disaster
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Lobster season off to excellent start in eastern Cape Breton
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Nova Scotia Lobster prices set to drop as volume increases
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Wellfleet shellfish ban a blow to fishermen
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San Diego-based tuna company selling boats, blames U.S. regulations
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Man, tired of living in U.S., steals boat to go back to Cuba, gets arrested on way
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New record of whale strandings along coast
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Southeast Alaska Dungeness fall harvest was lower than expected
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