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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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Longtime Stonington lobsterman Frank Gotwals to chair the board of the new Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative.
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GARFO: Distribution of Northeast Multispecies Groundfish Disaster Monies to States for First-Third of Consensus Plan
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Hurricane Ida: Department of Commerce Needs to Declare a Fisheries Disaster Immediately
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South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting December 2 thru 6, 2019 in Wilmington, NC
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The Canadian government recently approved, without fanfare, the world’s first genetically modified fish to be produced in PEI.
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Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, August 10, 2014
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Atlantic Canada seafood sectors surged in 2021
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