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DickGrachekis a retired fisherman and Captain who has worked in the fishing industry for over 40 years out of Point Judith, Rhode Island and Stonington, Connecticut.

John Johnson is a commercial fisherman and fish boat engineer who has fished on all types of boat’s from Alaska to Maine, and has fished for crab in Russia.

Joel Hovanesian is a commercial fisherman and Captain from Point Judith Rhode Island

Stephen Taufen is a citizen fishery advocate out of Kodiac Alaska, and is the founder of Groundswell Fisheries Movement

Nils Stolpe Mr. Stolpe is a fisheries consultant from New Jersey, the Communications Director of the Garden State Seafood Association, and the primary author, architect, and designer of the website Fish-NetUsa.com.

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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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