Testimony of Prof. Kevin Stokesbury

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MSA Re-Auth Roadshow: Testimony of Prof. Kevin Stokesbury to Congressional panel about cooperative fisheries research

November 6, 2013 New England

smast This written testimony by Dr. Kevin Stokesbury should be read, and forwarded to every Congressman and Senator as proof of the way forward in fishery management and stock assessments. This guy, along with some SMAST students took stuff they bought at Walmart, and literally saved the NE scallop fishery from doom, and ruin from NMFS. The Habcam scam was a slap in the face to SMAST, and the fleecing of the tax payers, and an absolute disservice to the industry when NOAA decided to eliminate SMAST from the program they pioneered. Read his testimony here. 22:25

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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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