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Gloucester Mayor Kirk seeks $1M for loan fund |
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Mayor Carolyn Kirk has asked the U.S. Commerce Department, which had a team in Gloucester last month, to recapitalize the $1 million Fishermen's Loan Fund along with a suite of other investments to help the municipal "economy in transition."
The requests were contained in a letter she wrote to Joshua Barnes, a program analyst, who led the team from the Commece Department's Economic Development Administration to Gloucester and other major New England fishing ports in early May to assess the impact of fisheries policies and recommend counter measures. Read the complete story from The Gloucester Times.
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Monterey Bay's historic "wetfish" industry is under attack by extremist groups who claim overfishing is occurring. Touting studies with faulty calculations, activists are lobbying federal regulators to massively limit fishing, if not ban these fisheries outright. Apparently the facts don’t matter to groups with an anti-fishing agenda
