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Tighter Lobster Rules Irrelevant As Economics Will Close This Fishery |
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The practical likelihood the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will vote this Spring to close all lobster fishing from Cape Cod south to Virginia is extremely doubtful, regardless of press stories to the contrary.
Despite some modest growth in lobster landings in the recent years, Dr. Robert Beyer, executive director of the Lobster Institute in Rockland, Maine. said “the brood stock of lobsters never has recovered from the massive die-off in Long Island Sound in 1999.” And he added, the conditions that caused this didn’t just happen in one year! Read the complete story from Fishery News.
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JESSICA HATHAWAY: 'National Fisherman' editor says New York Times misrepresented catch share support
May 18, 2012 - The New York Times heralds catch shares for saving summer flounder and Northeast haddock, which is like crediting a freshman class for the seniors' high college placement rate. By the same token, we could blame catch shares for the demise of Northeast cod stocks. But we don't.
