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BP asks for Gulf spill deal ok despite objections – calls for BP to pay $2.3 billion for seafood-related claims by commercial fishing vessel owners, captains and deckhands

October 23, 2012 National

IT AIN”T ENOUGH! Nov. 1 is the opt-out deadline. BP says only a minuscule percentage of eligible claimants have asked to be excluded so far. The settlement calls for BP to pay $2.3 billion for seafood-related claims by commercial fishing vessel owners, captains and deckhands. Several objectors argued the seafood program doesn’t adequately account for uncertain future risks to Gulf fisheries. “The continuing decline of the fisheries and the possibility of a fishery collapse or closure expose commercial fishermen to significant future risk,” wrote an advocacy group called Gulf Organized Fisheries in Solidarity & Hope, or GO FISH. BP countered that objections about the seafood program are based on “anecdotal and unreliable evidence, unsubstantiated allegations, and mere speculation.” The agreement also calls for paying medical claims by cleanup workers and others who say they suffered illnesses from exposure to the oil or chemicals used to disperse it.http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/bp-asks-for-gulf-spill-deal-ok-despite-objections/article_252e8b63-6f76-5634-ac42-268af12fb3f1.html

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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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