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Seven crew members rescued after Faroese trawler Eysturbúgvin sinks

April 14, 2022 International

Seven crew members have been rescued after their fishing vessel sank following a collision with another vessel off the Western Isles in Scotland this morning. The Faroese trawler, Eysturbúgvin, sank after colliding with its sister vessel Vesturbúgvin, and Faroese authorities have confirmed the vessel sank within a few minutes of the collision. The 36.4-metre Eysturbúgvin had departed from the port of Torshavn on the Faroe islands yesterday, Wednesday 13 April. >click to read< 21:14

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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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