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Mid-Atlantic Council Meeting in Baltimore December 8 – 11, 2014 Listen live with Adobe Connect

December 7, 2014 Mid Atlantic

Briefing Materials: All briefing materials will be posted at www.mafmc.org/briefing/december-2014 as they become available. Webinar Access: For online access during the meeting, enter as a guest here at adobe connect! 18:05

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“The Fluke Fairness Act,” – Schumer Announces First-ever Legislation to End Unfair Fluke Regulations that Deeply Punish Long Island Anglers

November 5, 2013 Mid Atlantic

Currently, flawed, decades-old data-sets are used to set the limits for recreational and commercial fluke allocations along the East Coast. Furthermore, because of flaws in the state-by-state quota system, New York is arbitrarily saddled with a disproportionate burden of the federal plan for the fluke’s recovery. [email protected] 15:36

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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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