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PAUL COHAN: Shift of fishing closure gives hope |
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September 28, 2012 -- How is it that the Northeast Seafood Coalition, with far fewer resources and access to data, devised an acceptable alternative that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grudgingly accepted with less than 96 hours to go before the closure went into effect?
This last-minute reprieve, although gratefully welcomed, left the new kid on the block with egg on his face largely due to the agenda-driven, purposeful ineptitude of some of his key so-called “expert” scientists and bean counters. If I were he, I would be furious at this betrayal, which initially made him look like Barney Fife. To his credit, he had the guts to take matters into his own hands, despite the treachery from within his own ranks, and get to the truth, thereby saving almost 100 families from the unemployment lines and 40 small businesses from insolvency.
Read the full letter at the Gloucester Times
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NEW BEDFORD STANDARD-TIMES: Our big oceans need big ideas
May 16, 2013 -- SMAST associate professor for fisheries oceanography Steve Cadrin warns that, as easy as it is to blame everything on shifting populations or overfishing, the complexity of the ocean is nearly chaotic, and drawing useful conclusions requires making simplifying assumptions. One of those assumptions has always been that the environment was "fairly constant."
