OK, it will only add two berths for boats roughly 50 feet in length. And yes, a project cost of $100,000 is a zero or two short on the kind of overall harbor investment Gloucester truly needs. But no one should underestimate — or underappreciate — the message behind a MassDevelopment Corp. plan to build a new, 100-foot extension onto the Jodrey State Fish Pier. Read more@GDT 00:10
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
