Catch shares. Quotas. Consolidation. Terms not normally associated with summertime flounder fishing in the back bays of Atlantic City, Brigantine and Margate.
Ever rising ‘keeper’ sizes and heavy-handed regulation. Are recreational fishing businesses at the Jersey Shore headed for extinction? It certainly looks like state and federal are leaning that way.
Fearful of over-fishing, the government stepped in with heavy regulation to help save fish populations.
WATCH VIDEO > New documentary that shines a light on America’s seafood industry. Fishing towns are being gutted by the slow march to privatize fisheries. The episode “Cod is Dead,” provides a history of the nation’s prosperous fishing industry, and how it’s changing.
Federal regulations designed to replenish fish populations are harming the livelihoods of fishermen.
Privatizing fisheries. Corrupt practices on the docks. Faulty research and a greedy few, are affecting the fishing population. Iceland, New Bedford, and now, South Jersey.
- Squeeze more profit out of system.
- Research vessel Bigelow from NOAA.
- Fisheries councils helping or hurting?
the food supply chain reveals unsavory truths and hidden forces that shape what we eat.
Many depend on the recreational fishing industry, like Robin Scott of Margate. “Families like the idea of vacationing in a small, quaint fishing village along the Jersey Shore.” Too bad that doesn’t exist anymore. McMansions have replaced most marinas and public docks.
“Cod is Dead” is part of the Rotten series, that premiered on Netflix on January 5. “In a world where huge global supply-chains are increasingly intertwined and consolidated, this series starts on your dinner plate… and follows the money to the shocking consequences—intended or not—of regulation, innovation and greed.
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