Environmental group touts catch shares as fishing suit is heard
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On the same day New England groundfishermen entered a federal courthouse in Boston to challenge the U.S. Commerce Department over implementation of catch shares, an environmental group conducted a conference call with national media, promoting its release of a report supporting the catch share system.
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Wind farm hearing prompts howls from fishing interests
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NEW BEDFORD — The first meeting of the governor's Fisheries Working Group on Offshore Renewable Energy nearly became the last.
About 30 members of the fishing industry met with state officials Monday in the Wharfinger Building, expressing deep skepticism and often open opposition to the idea of putting as many as 800 wind turbines on a 3,000-square-mile swath of Atlantic Ocean south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
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Lobsters heading for the deep
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Lobster populations across all of southern New England, from the elbow of Cape Cod to the Sound, have sunk to what fisheries biologists consider dangerously low levels. Meanwhile, their kin to the north flourish, accompanied by a healthy fishery for this favorite culinary crustacean.
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CCA Testifies on Magnuson-Stevens Implementation Problems
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Bird’s testimony will also emphasize the importance of allocation; highlight the federal government’s failure to implement the national recreational registry program by 2009, and review well-known current and pending fisheries debacles including South Atlantic red snapper, black sea bass, dolphin, wahoo and cobia. “These problems are creating a damaging rift between conservation-minded anglers and the federal agencies charged with managing our fisheries. It is critical that before annual catch limits are imposed on data-poor fisheries and fisheries that have had no assessments, the Congress must require the stocks actually be assessed,” Bird said.
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Are Commercial Fishermen the real Chesapeake Endangered Species?
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EPA talks a great deal about environmental justice. In "EPA speak" this means the protection of minorities and lower income families disenfranchised from the regulatory (e.g., siting of landfills and factories) process.
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