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Two senators and three congressman request NMFS enforcement probe |
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Two U.S. senators and three congressmen who represent the state's fishing communities have asked NOAA
Administrator Jane Lubchenco for an investigation into allegations of
"excessive penalties and retaliatory actions" by Gloucester-based
federal fishery law enforcers against unnamed interests.
The letter to Dr. Lubchenco noted "the agency has collected total fines exceeding $400,000 twelve times between 1989 and 2008" with six of those times coming in the "past 10 years when fishing capacity dropped steeply." And it observed that "a fine of tens of thousands of dollars could easliy bankrupt fishermen struggling to survive." |
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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.
