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Shifted out of the NOAA law enforcement director's chair in 2010 after
an inspector general found his agents had improperly treated fishermen
like criminals and abused a multi-million dollar fund built on fines,
Dale J. Jones Jr.'s career has rebounded.
Less than two years after revelations of a mass document shredding authorized by Jones that may have destroyed evidence sought by investigators for Commerce Department Inspector General Todd Zinser, Jones has been named a program manager for a high-priority initiative aimed at opening data portals for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the outside world. After he was quietly removed as director of law enforcement in April 2010 — with no reference to Jones, the email press release said only that an interim acting chief had been appointed — Jones was reassigned to be a fisheries analyst. He absorbed a negligible reduction in pay, from $158,500 as director of law enforcement to $155,000 as a fisheries analyst. Read the complete story from The Gloucester Times
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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.
