As the New Year is on the Horizon, Please consider implementation of a U.S. Fish Bill

Greetings to all commercial fishermen, fish processors, equipment suppliers, politicians, and citizens, that are interested and supportive of creation of a U.S. Fish Bill. I mentioned it in a letter to the editor, Letter: Can a fish bill, like Farm Bill, aid fishermen? on January 9, 2015, and have continued posting about, hoping the idea will gain industry wide support.

I have tried to get our local politicians to help me draft a U.S Fish Bill, which would serve the U.S Fishing Industry, like the U.S. Farm Bill does for the agriculture industry. I have reached out to my asked U.S. Senators, Senator Ed Markey, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and my Congressman Seth Moulton, all fishing industry political representatives, to help, but get no response.

It’s hard for one person to get they’re attention, and this is why I am asking all commercial fishermen, fish processors, equipment suppliers, politicians, and citizens to support and help formulate the U.S. Bill, which could provide long term financial help from our government during times of crisis and turmoil. The cost could come from duties on fish imports.

One idea I like, we could agree to reduce our catch of what ever species NOAA claims is in danger, while the government would pay us for the value we could potentially lose. What are your idea’s for problem solutions in your fisheries?! Please get this to your political representatives. If you need more info email me, [email protected]

Thank you, Sam Parisi

Gloucester, Mass.

12/27/2020

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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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