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Stories of Honor – Guy Cravath: A predecessor to aviation survival

October 20, 2019 National, New England

Sixty-nine-year-old Orcutt resident Guy Cravath was part of the U.S. Coast Guard’s search-and-rescue program before his profession became the domain of the highly-elite. That was when the Coast Guard used hoists with baskets to pluck distressed boaters from the water, rather than rescue swimmers. “I had no plan,” Cravath said. “I was going to graduate and get a job and wait to be drafted. That’s how stupid I was. >click to read< 10:11

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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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