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Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary management plan open for comment through April 10

March 8, 2020 New England

Comments can be made online, by mail or in person at public scoping meetings. The 90-minute public scoping meetings all start at 6:30 p.m. The first is March 11 at the New England Aquarium, Harborside Learning Lab, 1 Central Wharf, in Boston. The second is March 12 at Maritime Gloucester, 23 Harbor Loop in Gloucester, and the third is March 18 at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Admiral’s Hall, 101 Academy Dr. in Buzzards Bay. Comments can be made online at regulations.gov and searching for docket number NOAA-NOS-2020-0003. You can also submit comments by mail to NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, 175 Edward Foster Road, Scituate MA 02066, Attn: Management Plan Revision. more, >click to read< 13:33

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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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