A 64-year-old Shag Harbour captain is dead after he was pulled overboard while lobster fishing in the Cape Sable area Monday night, according to Nova Scotia RCMP. Barrington RCMP say Larry Wayne Sears was hauling lobster pots with his two crew members on the Four Ladies when “it appears the trawl line became snarled in the hauler.” Read the rest here 11:03
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
