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Last Week’s Biggest Sales: Deadliest Catch Captain Gets $3.65M For Sammamish Home

January 12, 2016 North Pacific, Pacific

Listed for: $4.1M Received: $3.65M Size: 5-BR, 5.25-bath, 5,435 sf. Location: 3113 E Lake Sammamish Pkwy, Sammamish, WA The Skinny: The seller of this nautical-themed lakeside home is Bing Henkel, owner and former captain of the Erla-N, which was featured on the TV show ‘Deadliest Catch.’ Designed by Henkel and wife Betsy, the 5,435 square-foot home has seafaring touches throughout, including the living room’s inlaid-tile mariner’s compass mosaic and the office’s antique ship wheel. They came down a bit on the asking price before they got their pending offer. Read the rest here. 14:14

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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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