A 13-tonne haul of cod – caught in a single day by north-east boat the Budding Rose – highlights healthier times for the fish in the North Sea. The industry has endured year after year of quota and days-at-sea cuts in recent years after stocks dwindled to alarmingly low levels. But conservation measures pioneered in Scotland have,,, Read the rest here 19:46 The Budding Rose website.
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
