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.
Feb 10, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Commerce Department Inspector General has conducted the review to address concerns with controls over the Asset Forfeiture Fund (AFF) raised in OIG reports published in January 2010 and July 2010.
- Inspector General Finds More Action Needed to Improve Asset Forfeiture Fund; Bill in Congress Would Address Deficiencies
- NOAA grapples with uncertainty over Obama reorganization plan
- New England Senators to Commerce Department: Don’t Sink Historic Cod Fishing Industry
- Natural Resources Ranking Member Ed Markey asks Commerce, SBA, and FDIC to work with NMFS and EDA to find ways to connect fishermen with financial products
- 19 Members of Congress Call on Obama Administration to Preserve Historic Gulf of Maine Cod Fishery
- Pilgrim nuclear power station seen as herring threat
- The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released documents related to Commercial Leasing for Wind Power on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Offshore Massachusetts
- Smarting Over Cod Shortages, Fishermen Blame Seals
- ASMFC American Lobster Board Approves Area-Specific Measures to Reduce Fishing Exploitation on Southern New England Stock by 10%
- ASMFC Atlantic Menhaden Board Approves the Public Information Document for Draft Amendment 2 - States to Conduct Public Hearings in March & April
- ASMFC Bluefish Board Approves Coastwide Sampling Program to Improve Data Used in Stock Assessments
- ASMFC Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board Initiates Addendum to Address Illegal Striped Bass Harvest
- ASMFC Horseshoe Crab Board Approves Addendum VII - Addendum Implements New Multispecies Management Framework
- NOAA Fisheries announces the Atlantic sea scallop access area trip assignments
- NOAA doubles Gulf of Maine winter flounder catch limits
- NOAA Fisheries Service institutes voluntary vessel speed restriction zone in vicinity of Jeffreys Ledge through February 18
- Atlantic Spiny Dogfish Fishery Closed
