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Monday: Northeast Fisheries Summit |
| Mayor Scott Lang, the City of New Bedford, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute to welcome all interested parties to the Northeast Fisheries Summit, to be held Monday, March 8, 2010 at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. | |||
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Northeast Fisheries Summit Draft Agenda |
| A preliminary draft agenda for Monday's Northeast Fisheries Summit to be held in New Bedford, Massachusetts has been released. | |||
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Tierney, Kucinich to Host Fishery Field Hearing at Gloucester City Hall |
| Congressman John Tierney (D-MA) announced that an oversight field hearing on the fisheries enforcement programs of NOAA will be held March 2, 2009 at Gloucester City Hall. | |||
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Massachusetts Lawmakers Urge NOAA to Delay Prosecutions |
| Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown, together with Congressmen Barney Frank, John Tierney and William Delahunt has writted to Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), urging her to delay prosecutions of fishermen working in the Northeast. | |||
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NOAA Chief appoints Eric Schwaab of Maryland to head National Marine Fisheries Service |
| Eric Schwaab has spent the majority of his career at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, where he began as a natural resources police law enforcement officer in 1983. | |||
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- NOAA Administrator Announces Actions and Plans in response to Inspector General's Report
- Congressman Barney Frank disappointed by NOAA Administrator's reply to his concerns
- Summary of the Inspector General's Report on NOAA Fisheries Law Enforcement
- Scallop Framework 21 Decision to be reviewed and "possibly reconsidered"
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Will catch shares do the trick? by Lisa Duchene
I support catch-shares in principal, and I support ending overfishing and bringing fisheries into balance.
But will this latest regulatory overhaul and the catch-share system help rebuild New England’s traditional fisheries? I don’t know, but I certainly hope ― and pray ― it will.
Hopefully, when the stocks return, there will still be New England fishermen around to catch them.
