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Tributes to Skipper John, who faced pirates and broke fishing records

January 28, 2021 Featured, International News

He spent 50 years breaking numerous records and battling all weathers at sea as he was named a port’s top skipper. Now touching tributes have been paid to a long-serving fisherman from Lowestoft who has been hailed as a “town hero” following his death. Family and former colleagues of John Ketteringham – known to his friends as JK – have honoured a “great man” who will be sadly missed. photos, >click to read< 07:20

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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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