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On the hunt for local oysters in Annapolis area restaurants

January 7, 2016 Mid Atlantic

If you love oysters, the best are yet to come. Bill Scerbo, president of the Anne Arundel Watermen’s Association says warm waters early in the season kept oysters from reaching the peak of size and flavor. But Scerbo pronounced the emerging crop “well worth the eating” — high marks from a 35-year veteran of harvesting oysters and crabs on the Chesapeake Bay. Maryland Oystermen’s Association President President Jim Mullin reports that watermen are “catching their limit and they’re good-sized oysters.” And that means supply is keeping up with demand,,, Read the article here 17:32

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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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