Clearwater Seafoods Inc. reported Wednesday a loss of $9.8 million on sales of $95.3 million in the second quarter of this year. “Strong catch rates in the latter part of the second quarter and the first part of the third quarter have resulted in … higher available volumes to sell in the third and fourth quarters at a lower cost of capture. @chronicleherald
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
