It is apparent MRAG Americas has extremely strong ties to the environmental community, and Jane Lubchenco and works extensively with the Environmental Defense Fund. It also has many NOAA and NMFS departments listed as clients and recipients of their services and let’s not forget that MRAG Americas has also written the catch shares manual for the EDF, the same fisheries management system being forced upon us by the EDF, Lubchenco and her group of hand-picked environmental stooges at NOAA.
Let’s take a look at MRAG’s most recent NOAA project contracted by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a $5 billion dollar environmental foundation that has provided grants to the EDF totaling over $7,000,000. MRAG Americas will prepare a study and report back to the EDF and NOAA’s Jane Lubchenco on the five year effect of catch shares and the privatization of the New England ground and Pacific trawl fishery even though catch share regulations have been in effect for only two years by New England and no time at all for the Pacific trawl fishermen..
Alright, let me put that in other words. NOAA is expecting to receive an evaluation on how well catch shares are working in these two fisheries and how well they will be working three to five years in the future. This evaluation and speculation is coming from a company with deep ties to the EDF and the environmental foundations; a company that wrote the manual on catch shares; a company that has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the environmental foundations. I’m damn sure I already know the outcome and recommendations of this MRAG report. It will supply EDF and NOAA the ammunition they need to continue their catch shares scam on the American fishing public.
Read the complete editorial from Big Game Fishing Journal.