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My Father, the High Line: A Fish Story

April 5, 2017 New England

My mother found the photos in a crisp envelope tucked in the top drawer of my father’s dresser. She claimed she hadn’t seen them before, which in itself was remarkable. She was always opening that drawer, moving things around, stacking my father’s laundered socks. If anyone were to nose around and happen to riffle through that envelope, it would have been her. The photos were out of order, but the sequence was easy to figure out. And luckily, there were newspaper clippings folded along with them that filled in the rest—a fishing trip off Gloucester’s Cape Ann, a boat full of men, and my young father standing next to a giant tuna that he caught, its weight announced on a handmade sign: 457 lbs. continue reading the article here 15:46

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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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