Carmine Gorga

  Carmine Gorga is a featured writer at fisherynation.com. Your comments are welcome.

SITTING IN: How wrong is the Pew mantra?

Gloucester —I have heard it so many times, that I call it the Pew Mantra. What is the  evidence that NGO’s environmentalists offer to prove that family fishing vessels  engage in overfishing? What are the “facts” on which they build their case?  Well, this is what they tell us: At each passing, bottom trawlers scrape the  floor of the ocean and, just like clear-cutting forests, make a desert out of  it. Sounds so convincing doesn’t it? more@wickedlocalGloucester   Sep 21, 2013 @ 21:02

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Letter: Report shows flaws in NOAA, Pew stands

I have heard it so many times, that I call it the Pew Mantra. What is the evidence that organization’s environmentalists offer to prove that family fishing vessels engage in overfishing? What are the “facts” on which they build their case? Well, this is what they tell us: At each passing, bottom trawlers scrape the floor of the ocean and, just like clear-cutting forests, make a desert out of it. Sounds so convincing doesn’t it?  more@GDT  Sep 10, 2013 @ 4:23

Letter: Pew’s ‘overfishing’ mantra doesn’t make it true. Why does he do that?

Dr. John Crawford (Letters, the Times, Friday, June 20) seems to have a short memory; and he is banking on other people having an equally short memory as well. continued@gloucesterdailytimes  Jun 28, 2013 @ 10:44

Predator, prey balance needed in fisheries management Carmine Gorga, Ph.D.

 December 14, 2012
To the editor: GDT

Congratulations to Matt Mullin, deputy regional director, New England Oceans Program, Environmental Defense Fund! He is the first member of the fisheries “establishment” who has publicly admitted to the need to account for the “predator and prey balance” (Letter, the Times, Nov, 14). This is a very important communication.

There is now hope that sooner or later even the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Marine Fisheries Service will eventually look at stocks of fish as existing in a web of interrelationships with each other, rather than in linear formation as they were depicted in ancient biology books. There is now hope that overfishing will no longer be attributed to the pitiful family fishing fleet!

Just imagine a world in which NOAA and NMFS acknowledge their boundaries, a world in which they leave the family fishing fleet alone. A world in which they get up the gumption to go after the large, often subsidized, national and international corporations, at times culprits for the devastation of the fisheries. Just imagine a world in which NOAA and NMFS call for a balanced management of pelagics (mid-water fish) and bottom fish!

Carmine Gorga, Ph.D.

Middle Street,

Gloucester