Tag Archives: overfishing

More Difficult News for New England Groundfishing Fleet

Posted on 20 November 2014 by Ret Talbot

Why don’t they just close the Gulf of Maine down and subsidize us like they do the wind farmers and the solar energy companies and farmers out west? They pay them not to farm, why don’t they pay us not … Continue reading →

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Assessing Cause and Effect with Data in Hawaii’s Aquarium Fishery

Posted on 7 November 2014 by Ret Talbot

Yesterday I reported on the 2015 commercial northern shrimp fishery moratorium in New England, an event where ocean warming, rather than poor fishery management, is likely responsible for fishery collapse. Today, I want to take a look at Hawaii, where anti-aquarium fishery … Continue reading →

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