Some lobster buyers say fishermen are bringing in large catches of high quality lobsters across western Nova Scotia in the first few days of the crucial fall fishery. Michael Cotter, of Cotter’s Ocean Products in Lockeport, says the quality of the lobsters coming from District 33 is the highest he’s seen in more than eight years. He says catches are higher as well. Read the rest here 18:14
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
