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Commercial fisherman faces trial in Huron court

September 16, 2018 Inland Fisheries

A longtime commercial fisherman in the Sandusky area says he’s worried about going out of business if his company loses a trial in Huron next month. Dean Koch, 69, Crystal Rock, no longer goes out on the boat run by his Whites Landing Fisheries Inc. His son Drew Koch now serves as the captain. But Koch says his company will be put out of business under the state’s “three strikes” rules if the company is found guilty of the claim that it unlawfully harvested 100 pounds of fish in 2015 in a location of Lake Erie where commercial fishing wasn’t allowed. >click to read<11:23

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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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