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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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Food Fight: Offshore Wind a Risk to Cultural Fabric, Fishing Industry of LBI
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Cox’s cove fisherman trucks 2,619 pounds of cod fillet to Quebec and sells out in less than an hour , boosting argument for outside buyers
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NOAA Fisheries Names Doug Lipton Senior Research Economist – Nice! Another Enviro-Capitalist—just what we need.
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Former Pacific Seafood executive sentenced for embezzlement
A former executive who embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Pacific Seafood Group was sentenced Monday in federal court to two years in federal prison. Read More » -
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New Bedford: Officials promise to continue to fight for fishermen at annual blessing ceremony
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Commercial Dungeness crab season to open throughout most of the Southern Fishery; one area will remain closed
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NJ back to court to stall seismic study
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Coronavirus: North Carolina fishermen, seafood dealers work through industry changes due to outbreak
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Tri Marine says South Pacific Tuna Treaty is obsolete
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Border force agents check EU Fishing Quota’s instead of stopping ‘illegal migrants’
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