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U.S. Department of Justice says owner of fishing vessel that fouled Penn Cove owes $2.8 million

May 14, 2015 Pacific

The man convicted of abandoning his derelict vessel, which sank and spilled oil in Penn Cove in 2012, owes $2.8 million for the cost of removal and damage, the federal government said this week. Rory Westmoreland’s fishing vessel Deep Sea was illegally anchored in Whidbey Island’s Penn Cove before it caught fire, sank and spilled thousands of gallons of oil into the waters in May 2012. The spill forced the temporary closure of a nearby shellfish farm. Three years later,,, Read the rest here 11:15

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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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