Thursday, June 27, 2013

Stolen Halibut Transformed to Good Deed by Thieves

While the newscaster's gushes about how the Coast Guard flew 13,000 lbs of filleted halibut to
Kotzebue for food bank dependents, the real story is one of theft, and public relations spin.  The public tax money used to pay for the under funded Coast Guard's flight, is carrying a mere 3/10s of one percent of the 4.4 million pounds of halibut wasted by the draggers in the Gulf of Alaska.  Most of those halibut are far too small for filleting, and represent the future of halibut. 

So in return for killing off the halibut stocks, the draggers and their processor cronies get a gushy sound bite by the news media.

http://www.kmxt.org/images/stories/mp3/130626.sea_share_halibut_adq-otz.mp3

http://www.adn.com/2013/06/26/2954187/halibut-bycatch-delivered-to-kotzebue.html

Keep yer flippers wet.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Keep up the work Tholepin. How about a blog on stopping this catch share plan too. Thanks