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NOAA memo: Fishermen's help wanted to create 'spin' |
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Days before the U.S. Commerce Department's Inspector General released a
scathing report on law enforcement policies and practices against the
fishing community, high officials in the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration were trying to pull together an industry
team for rebuttal.
An internal memo obtained yesterday by the [Gloucester] Times shows that, down the
line of command — from the special agent in charge of the southwest
region in Long Beach, Calif., to agents in other California ports and
Seattle — went the order to find "three or four people in the industry"
willing to speak positively about the Office of Law Enforcement and
spin media coverage. |
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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.
