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Ex-Murkowski aide gets prison term in fish case |
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A former aide to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski who had worked as a commercial fisherman while sitting on the council that regulates fishing off Alaska's coastline was sentenced Tuesday to five months in prison for falsifying his own fishing reports.
U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland said the real crime that Arne Fuglvog, 48, committed was not monetary but to the reputation of the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, whose primary responsibility is the management of groundfish in the Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea. Read the complete story from the Anchorage Daily News.
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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.
