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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
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South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting March 3-7, 2014 in Savannah, GA – Listen LIVE!
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Garden State Seafood Association supports reform of the Endangered Species Act
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Proposal to help young fishermen becomes law
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Japan: A Fisherman in the Time of the Coronavirus
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Commercial fishing of Asian carp is catching on in the Heartland
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North Carolina: Area lawmakers seek to protect, improve industry
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Hurricane Idalia at Category 3 strength ahead of Florida landfall
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Two Maryland fishermen banned from fishing for striped bass forever
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Right whale breeding ground discovered off N.S. Males, whose four to 4.5 metre-long prehensile penis is one of the largest in the animal kingdom
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Executive order bars imports of Russian fish that is processed in other countries
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Canada sole holdout on United Nations fisheries guidelines
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Lobstermen say proposed Right Whale rules are expensive, dangerous, and based on outdated data
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NMFS names 10 groups to develop the $20.8 million disaster relief plans
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