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Royal Greenland CEO: North Atlantic fishing sector needs more consolidation

March 14, 2016 Canada

Royal Greenland’s acquisition of Quin-Sea Fisheries of Canada is a movement in the right direction for the consolidation of the North Atlantic seafood sector, said the former’s CEO. On Friday, Royal Greenland confirmed the government of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, where Quin-Sea is based, has approved production licenses to operate the Canadian firm’s plants. This was the last pending condition for the deal, meaning it will now complete. Read the rest here 08:24

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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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