Frank taking fishing fight to national arena
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January 17, 2011 - The policy rift with the White House over executive decisions that Congressman Barney Frank has described as unjustified, contemptible, weak-willed and destructive to the fishing industry has been pulled into the national political realm.
In no way was it encouraging to the White House to have Frank question policies whose end result, he noted in remarks last Thursday dripping with disdain, were to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Shrimp proves lifeline to fishermen out of quota
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To keep the Gulf of Maine's northern shrimp stock healthy, its governing Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission established a tentative Dec. 1 to April 15 continuous daytime harvesting period that cannot land more than 4,000 metric tons.
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Pressing Challenges Facing the Commercial Fishing Industry
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The New Bedford Harbor Development Commission has developed a "top ten"
list of issues as a press briefing to inform journalists, talk show
hosts, and other newcomers to the issues facing the New England fishing
industry.
The list was developed by interviewing numerous
industry leaders to get their views of the most pressing challenges
facing the industry and the actions or inaction by Federal regulators
they find most offensive.
It includes links to stories from various sources addressing many of the issues in greater detail.
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Lang says rule-making is corrupt; Scientist and Economist say Locke and Schwaab responses were "factually incorrect"
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NEW BEDFORD — Jan. 15, 2011 -- Mayor Scott Lang says the "rule-making" process in the federal fisheries regulatory system is as "corrupt" as its New England law enforcement branch was revealed to be.
And he predicted Thursday night that corruption, alleged to emanate from "inside baseball" played by government officials and environmental giants such as the Environmental Defense Fund, will be exposed in "the light of day," targeted in part by a lawsuit filed by the cities of New Bedford and Gloucester and a wide range of commercial fishing interests.
Lang issued the corruption allegation — reprising a potentially explosive element in the looming lawsuit against the federal government — after scientists at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth critiqued as wrong and misinformed the reasoning behind a decision that denies the groundfishing industry based here and Gloucester relief from regulatory constraints and direct economic aid.
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Congressman Barney Frank, Mass. Environment Sec'y Sullivan, and Mayor Lang speak at Mayor's Council Meeting
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