The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet
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
-
Recent Posts
-
Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum honors Biloxi’s seafood heritage with Hall of Fame
-
New Fisheries Protective Co-operative Taking Inspiration from Past to Help Inshore Fish Harvesters
-
Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 50′ Fiberglass Stern Trawler, 425HP Volvo Diesel, Northern Lights 12 kw Generator
-
UPDATED: Tsunami warnings canceled – 7.9 earthquake in Gulf of Alaska, tsunami warnings issued for coast
-
Fishermen gear up for Southeast Dungeness crab season opening
-
The ‘grace of God’ -La Scie fishing crew survives harrowing journey after losing steering during storm
-
For Alaska’s seafood processors, the Coronavirus pandemic has cost tens of millions
-
A man-made attempt to save the rarest fish on Earth (its a guppy!)
-
Reopening Western Australia’s shark fishery could boost seafood supply and public safety
-
Saving The Whales. The Fight Against Offshore Wind Farms.
-
Rocky Barker: The Endangered Species Act survives, but not all species will
-
Closure of Eastern Seafood | The end for Matane shrimp?
-
Keys commercial fisherman takes off rather than face inspection
-
Dogfish Neck? Cape Skate? Pollock Peninsula? – Cape fishermen anticipated cod collapse
-
Alaska cod pot fisherman earn extra flexibility with new octopus quota – Alaska Dispatch
-
Norad Tracks Santa: Christmas tradition for children turns 60
-
Adak’s halibut arrives fresh in Boston faster than anywhere else in the state of Alaska
-
After 83 years, West Coast Wet Fish Processor, State Fish, to close doors
-
Strange but true! The “noaa chronical’s” – NOAA report spotlights ‘underfishing’
-
‘No fish and no hope’: Poor sockeye salmon run takes a toll on Chignik
-
No Fukushima-Related Radiation Detected in Alaska Seafood
-
Fish-stealing whales take bite out of black-cod harvest
-
Captain Peter Parisi, the last of three generations of Gloucester fishermen, has passed away
-
Giant Bundaberg prawns bigger than a stubby
-
Dory Racing Season Begins This Saturday!
-
