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In a preliminary response to Sen. John Kerry's comprehensive reform
agenda for the New England fisheries, NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco
on Thursday announced a commitment to continue paying the multi-million
dollar cost of at-sea monitoring for commercial fishing boats.
The contracted employees are used on about one-third of the trips to record discards and inventory the catches. Lubchenco also volunteered to give industry a say in the selection of the two top positions in the Northeast region — regional administrator and chief scientist at the Science Center at Woods Hole. In a 2,500-word letter to Lubchenco on Wednesday — two weeks after hosting a Senate Commerce Committee hearing in Boston — Kerry estimated the additional year's monitoring would cost $7.5 million. Lubchenco's prepared statement did not price the subsidy, but she agreed to cover the monitoring costs through April 2013. Read the complete article by Richard Gaines in The Boston Globe
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JESSICA HATHAWAY: 'National Fisherman' editor says New York Times misrepresented catch share support
May 18, 2012 - The New York Times heralds catch shares for saving summer flounder and Northeast haddock, which is like crediting a freshman class for the seniors' high college placement rate. By the same token, we could blame catch shares for the demise of Northeast cod stocks. But we don't.
