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With industry bouncing back, Steveston Harbour Authority’s chair shares vision

June 13, 2015 Canada

Former fisherman and current Steveston Harbour Authority chair Robert Kiesman has a grand vision for the future of Steveston. The idea, in a nutshell: consolidate fishing companies, related businesses and retail offices currently scattered across the Lower Mainland, and bring them all to Richmond, and specifically the fishing village that is still Canada’s largest commercial fishing harbour. “What our idea is, is more than a marine park,” Kiesman told The Richmond Review Thursday. Read the rest here 22:55

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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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