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New Bedford fisherman’s arrest puts spotlight on industry’s quota questions

March 6, 2016 New England

When local fishing kingpin met last June with undercover agents posing as members of Russian organized crime, Rafael named an incredibly lofty price for his commercial fishing operation. $175 million. The price covered more than 40 boats and the Carlos Seafood business on New Bedford’s waterfront. It’s one of the largest groundfish and scallop operations in the country, and has been a fixture in the northeastern fishing industry for decades. But the agents were curious about the price, because Rafael showed them financial documents reporting annual income of just $3 million to $4 million from 2011 to 201. Read the rest here 07:39

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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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