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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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Letter: Lingering questions over NOAA’s perpetrators – Marty Stillufsen , Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.
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Queen’s Speech: Access and management of UK waters to return to British fishermen
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Editorial: Feds cannot allow altering of NOAA abuse report Gloucester Daily Times – Another Shameful Obama Administration Blunder
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Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA) Opposed to 55-square-mile closure area of Stellwagen Bank
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American Samoa: Loss of tuna treaty will hurt canneries
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Oregon Inlet restrictions eased, re-opening channel for commercial/charter boats
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BC: Fishing-boat captain from Courtenay presumed drowned near Kelsey Bay
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CAL Cargo launches overseas lobster flights from Halifax
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ASP Attempts to Light Fuse to Crab Fishery
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Lobsters to be given away to Mainers in Need Christmas Eve
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Cooke Aquaculture announces $203M Scottish purchase
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While researching the latest Cape Wind story and the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal. I get the sense that the Patrick administration sold the Legislature on the NB terminal using Cape Wind.,, The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center will not comment on any finances with the ongoing terminal project. Generally when state officials refuse comment on finances the projects are financially out of control. Read more here, and learn just who is Sally Reynolds! 11:55
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