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Ocean Wind Turbines Spell Doom For Commercial Fishing

August 18, 2014 National, Offshore Wind/Industrialization

The fishing industry and ocean commercial wind turbine business is about to butt heads and the winner has already been determined. Today the fishing industry is being groomed with informational meetings, tools and being asked to weigh the benefits of offshore wind energy in their communities. My suggestion is the same as someone who lives near a land based wind turbine proposal. Sell your house before it’s too late. The same goes for the fishing industry. Read more here 21:03

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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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