Local recreational and commercial fishermen say they’re losing out on fun and profit because of so many regulations. US Representative Steve Southerland from Panama City says he believes he can help in at least one way. His “Marine Access and State Transparency Act” would take away the president’s ability to shut down up to 780,000 square miles of ocean to fishing and energy exploration. Read more here 22:01
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
