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Lobster plant running full throttle to feed demand from China

January 2, 2015 Canada, International News

An Eastern Passage lobster processing plant has been operating full tilt since an October change in ownership. The new Chinese owner is now proceeding with plans to expand and add capacity. ZF Max International is the susbsidiary of Zoneco Group Corp. Ltd. of Dailian, China, which acquired the former H&H Fisheries Ltd. processing facility in October and rebranded it as Capital Seafood International Inc. Read the rest here 11:58

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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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