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This is not good, friends. Not good at all. Parasites in Yellowtail Flounder Could be Preventing Population Rebound

May 21, 2013 New England

Yellowtail liver with Ichthyophonus granulomas. Photo courtesy of Dr. Roxanna Smolowitz.

Scientists at the Coonamessett Farm Foundation (CCF) in Massachusetts are researching the effects of a fish-killing parasite recently observed in Georges Bank yellowtail flounder populations. The organism, Ichthyophonus, progressively invades its host’s vital organs, destroying their liver, kidneys, and heart. It generally afflicts older fish in a stock, which are also the most important for repopulation. continued

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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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