Denying The Reality Of Overfished / Declining Stocks
The denial of overfished stocks has played out with striped bass, bluefish, cod, red snapper, and now we hear the same language when it comes …
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Conservation vs. Commerce
The steelhead angling community has begun to eat its own when it comes to responding to the abysmal returns on the Columbia. For many of …
A Masterclass On Shifting Baseline Syndrome
Shifting baseline syndrome describes a gradual change in the accepted norms for the condition of the natural environment due to a lack of human …
Daniel Pauly and George Monbiot in conversation about “shifting baselines syndrome”
If you’re not familiar with shifting baselines syndrome you should be. It’s when people’s accepted thresholds for environmental conditions are continually being lowered. In the …