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TV show ‘Briefcase’ poses tough decision for part-time Keys man

May 31, 2015 Gulf of Mexico, National, South Atlantic

John Musolino the briefcase A North Carolina man who works as a commercial fisherman in Marathon for about half the year had to make a decision that would be tough for anyone: If given $100,000, what does he do with it? That’s the premise of the CBS TV show “The Briefcase,” which includes and their three children. It debuts at 8 p.m. Wednesday.The show involves two families who are each given $100,000. They have the option of keeping all of the money or giving part or all of it to the other family. Read the rest here 11:25

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“The Briefcase” – Marathon fishing family in new CBS reality show

May 27, 2015 National

The program, “The Briefcase,” finds couples in need of financial assistance, whether backlogged on loans or dealing with other hardships, and offers them an out. One of the episodes will feature John and Amanda Musolino, who reside part of the year in Marathon, as a struggling family who works wherever commercial fishing jobs pay. Amanda Musolino stays at their home raising the children, ages 12, 10 and 7, while John fishes seven months out of the year. Read the rest here 08:19

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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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