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Editorial: NOAA's wrongful police actions can't be left without remedy |
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With eyes focused Wednesday on our congressional lawmakers' push for
higher fishermen's catch allocations, it's important to remember that an
even more blatant case of NOAA wrongdoing cannot go unchallenged.
That, once again, is the ludicrous stand by Lois Schiffer, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's national chief counsel, not to revisit past cases of fishermen and fishing businesses who have clearly paid excessive fines and penalties, and to simply "go forward." And it's good to hear that U.S. Sens. John Kerry and Scott Brown and Congressman John Tierney have that issue in their sights as they continue to challenge more and more arms of a rogue, wayward agency that continues to show nothing but contempt for the industry, for Congress and, really, the American people. Read the Gloucester Daily Times editorial in full
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33 Fishing Community Members Say Permit Bank, Giacalone are pluses for Gloucester
This permit bank is a true local treasure for our fishing community and related businesses. Its existence has been one of the only positive things to come to this fishing community in decades.
