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NOAA attorney Charles Juliand's cash demand draws ethics fire; original documents made available |
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NOAA fisheries attorney Charles Juliand's inflexible demand for cash — nearly $50,000 from a well-liked Rhode Island commercial fisherman — seemed like just another example of hard bargaining at the time, four years ago. But Juliand's rejection of offers by Greg Duckworth to surrender his federal groundfishing permit in lieu of cash, and Juliand's rejection of any installment payment plan has now taken on what one private attorney has called "provocative" overtones as questions swirl around the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's dependence on the fines captured from fishermen to fund overseas travel by agents and operational spending by NOAA's Office of General Counsel. |
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NOAA Finance Expert Status Draws Fishing Lawyers Fire |
| The IG's report found that NOAA had used $109,000 from the fund to bring a contingent of agents and lawyers to the 2008 conference on international illegal fishing that was held in Trondheim, Norway. | |||
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Eric Schwaab on the Inspector General's reports and past cases |
| During a break at the NOAA Enforcement Summit, Saving Seafood Executive Director Bob Vanasse spoke briefly with NMFS Director Eric Schwaab and asked this question and a follow-up regarding past cases. | |||
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EDITORIAL: NOAA, NMFS willfully blind to past mistakes |
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They see no evil. They hear no evil. Except, of course, for the evil they believe fishermen are doing on the pitifully few days of the year that they are allowed to try to make an honest living. But when it comes to looking at corruption within, the leaders of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the regulatory agencies under their oversight see nothing. A "summit" convened by NOAA head Jane Lubchenco on Tuesday was focused on looking forward, not backward, to "advance ... enforcement." |
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Embattled fisheries enforcer remains on NOAA payroll |
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"Each and every one of these people has to go," New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang said. "It's a renegade police force." Lang said that if NOAA is going to promote transparency and accountability, it should practice with its own people. Rather than "acting like they have the high ground and moving forward," Lang said NOAA needs to go back and review some of the cases that the inspector general referred to. He said that Lubchenco set the wrong tone, and a more appropriate one would have been contrition. She needed to say, "We know we have a serious issue that needs to be resolved" and "we will work to see equal justice done." Lang and Gloucester Attorney Steve Ouellette said that it was significant that former NOAA general counsel Eldon Greenberg spoke to the gathering and urged NOAA to review some of the old cases to see whether justice can be done. But the current NOAA administration insists on "looking forward," not re-examining its own misdeeds, they said. After the session, Lang said that he told Lubchenco that NOAA must change its way of doing business. "Either you are going to do it, Congress is going to do it or a judge is going to do it. One way or another, it's going to be done." |
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BOSTON HERALD: Fishing for help
It shouldn’t be the Wild West out there on the high seas, but as one sign in the flotilla said, “Fishing families are working families.” That is a message Obama and his underlings should remember.
