Michael Conathan: Sustaining Seafood Sustainability
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Whole Foods’s decision to cast its sustainability lot with national organizations that fail to account for the localized impacts of their policy pronouncements also speaks directly to the broader problem of the consolidation of our food-purchasing decisions.
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Gloucester Times: Editorial: NOAA's latest science fiction
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April 27, 2012 - NOAA has never undertaken a stock assessment for sturgeon, regional council members were told Tuesday. The agency declared it endangered when acting on a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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River Herring Populations Teetering on the Brink
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April 25, 2012 - Forget the recent headlines suggesting that there is no decline in the numbers of alewives, the precious little forage fish that, along with its lookalike blueback herring cousin, underpins the marine food pyramid.
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Standard-Times Editorial: EDF looks for middle ground with fishermen
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April 25, 2012 - EDF's work in fisheries management has not been insignificant and has not endeared it to fishermen in the Northeast. Development of and advocacy for the 2-year-old catch shares system here have contributed to a belief on the waterfront that EDF's commitment to prosperity and partnerships is calculated lip-service that belies a more radical agenda to simply run fishermen out of business. Fishermen's predictions that catch shares would consolidate allowable catch into the hands of a few deep-pocketed fishermen have largely come to pass.
That hasn't stopped EDF's Johanna Thomas from trying to find and engage those partners. Thomas is a strategic adviser for EDF in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, with experience in the catch shares system on the West Coast. She visited with The Standard-Times editorial board about a year ago and again earlier this month, and both times she expressed how important she thinks it is to work with fishermen in order to keep them fishing in a sustainable way.
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Captain John McMurray: National ocean policy protects ocean health and benefit fishermen
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April 24, 2012 - In recent weeks, Republicans in Congress have once again taken aim at a comprehensive ocean management and protection plan. In misleading hearings and op-eds, their talking points mirror rumors that have long been exposed as false—that the National Ocean Policy (NOP) is somehow a direct assault on fishing.
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