The problem with our fishery is not the fish but the people who manage the fishery.
Many, if not all, in trusted positions of the authority, FFAW, Processors, governments and some large fishers want or would like programs that will direct the economic outcome and influence of the Industry into their sector.
This is a classic example of self driven motivation instead of what it should be...motivation based on the protection and health of a treasured renewable resource for the benefit of maximum peoples who depend on it for their subsistence.
This has been the main fault in our fishery....all of them, in each of their specific ways, want more say and control of the resource. This is the cause of our fisheries collapse.
A person will understand truth until the potential loss of his position or income interferes with his judgement!. Or as Krishnamurti said all organizations are corrupt! (Because eventually they will do anything to anyone or anything to insure their own survival and success.)
Ask yourself if your income and livelihood to provide for yourself and family and future security was in jeopardy because you stated factual truth which was different then the policies of the organization that you work for (e.g., federal government) would you still state those truths? 99.9% of people would not. Many would perhaps at best be silent altogether. But silence of this nature on things that you know are wrong is the same as committing and agreeing to those wrongs!
This is the simple fact of the weakness of human nature and many in our country, and our province, despite their profound reasons of confidence to differ, their ego of politics and position blinds them.
You may then wonder how can we correct these inherent human flaws, or is there a solution at all for the Fisheries Problems? I say we can correct it.
By first recognizing the truth, perhaps the greatest and most difficult truth of all to see, the truth of seeing the false in ourselves as false.... the falsity in our own human nature.
Only then can there be a successful program of resource protection, restoration and development directed by scientists who do not depend on the production of profits and power created by the Industry. Examples of this type of Fishery already exist in the world in Iceland and Norway.
This is perhaps a strange way to state things , so maybe a simple example will help. People say stop destroying the rain forest in the Amazon , because it will be all gone. If we keep at it we will lose discovering unknown species of animals and all the benefits of the undiscovered medicines that are in the jungle. In other words this approach is saying save it because in future there may be something in there that man can benefit from. Man , all man again. Wrong.
Why cant we just save it and protect it because it just is what it is...a marvel of millions of years of natures beauty, evolution, creation and genius? Save it for the sake of what it is to itself, it's beauty for it's beauties sake...it's creation for creations sake.
This way, just like the potential nature of our ever renewable fishery, Nature will be able to handle our need, but not our greed, forever!!! phil
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