How anti-fishing activists are taking over NOAA

[Capt. Keith]

Link to more info: http://www.southcarolina-offshore.com/ftopict-2406.html

The Big Green Money Machine – how anti-fishing activists are taking
over NOAA

Oh what a tangled web we weave...." Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto
vi. Stanza 17.

[b]For the first time in at least a century, U.S. fishermen won't take
too much of any species from the sea, one of the nation's top fishery
scientists says.” [/b]This is from an article written by Jay Lindsay
for the Associated Press ( http://www.fishtruth.net/PDF/Overfishing_Ended.pdf
) and the top fishery scientist is Steve Murawski, who retired early
in 2011 as Director of Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor
at NOAA Fisheries. So why are so-called “marine conservationists,”
ENGOs, the handful of billion dollar foundations that support them and
the upper echelons at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce still claiming that
radical surgery is needed to “save” our fisheries? The answer to that
question is beyond me, and beyond anyone who’s likely to be looking at
this website.

However, exploring the relationships – spelled out in dollars,
generally a really lot of dollars – might help to understand what’s
really going on. Following the advice that Deep Throat - Mark Felt -
gave to Bob Woodward during his Watergate investigation, it is an
exercise in following the money. Hence this website.

The heart of it is a database ( http://www.fishtruth.net/All%20Grants.htm
) in which I’ve listed the foundations that have funded what most
fishermen consider to be anti-fishing efforts, the grants that they
have made, the amounts of those grants and the recipients who have
benefited from them. The information it contains is taken directly
from the foundation websites. Unfortunately the web access they
provide to their grant-giving activities extends back for varying
amounts of time and the search engines they provide appear to have
limitations which make searches somewhat unreliable. While not all of
the listed grants might apply directly to fishing, they almost
certainly apply to the influence that the foundations making them have
on the recipients. (It is also available as a Microsoft Excel file
http://www.fishtruth.net/All%20Grants.xls.)

This link ( http://www.fishtruth.net/Connections.htm ) on the page are
linked to the people, the organizations and the work products that the
hundreds of millions of dollars of “investments” by this small group
of foundations have yielded. To get there, click on the button below
this paragraph. Even a cursory examination of the connections they
make will demonstrate that what has been sold as a massive
“scientific” movement is in fact controlled by these few very
powerful, and if the degree of human suffering they are responsible
for is any indication, very uncaring “charitable” institutions.

Just as it was important in the Watergate investigations, following
the money is also important in determining who is doing what and why
in fisheries management and where the impetus for a management
"revolution" is coming from. In order to help untangle what seems to
be an overly tangled web, I’m putting together information on the mega-
foundations behind the anti-fishing juggernaut and the individuals and
organizations that are most heavily involved.

The inclusion of individuals, organizations or events here is not
meant as an indictment of any sort. They are simply listed because
they are connected to hundreds of millions of dollars doled out by a
small handful of foundations, and the sum total of the effects of
those millions of dollars is the destruction of what since colonial
times has been considered an invaluable part of the heritage of our
coastal communities: fishermen and the businesses that depend on their
fishing.

If you find any inaccuracies or have any documented information that
you think should be added here, please let me know via email (click
here but you must delete the two Zs from my address – thank the
spammers and their web bots for this added exercise). This is and this
will remain a work in progress and will only be as valuable as the
information it contains. Also, if you have any questions or comments,
please feel free to contact me.

The full database is also available as a Microsoft Excel file by
clicking http://www.fishtruth.net/All%20Grants_update.xls.

Thank you,
Nils E. Stolpe