While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer? It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries. People walked the shores, planes piloted with community funded donations flew and searched, the Marine Patrol, Coast Guard and other services searched. And then sadly, only hoping to find Tylar. From the first hours when his boat was found nearby, lobstermen immediately used their boats, the source of their livelihood, and got to work hoping to rescue him. I know the entire community searched and grieved and worked together against hope to bring him home. He was headed to the Maine Maritime Academy. He was trusted enough to take others’ children out to sea, and to return. I know that he was the only other person, even at his young age to captain this other captain’s boat. What I know of him, I know from stories, posts and pictures about and of him. Then, Monday, shortly after that, he was found and brought home by another lobsterman. Tragically, but beautifully, his celebration of life was held Aug. Tylar Michaud, a promising young man and a lobsterman, went missing off his boat while he was out hauling his traps.
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