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    Focus going forward should be on making the New England Council and sector management work – not on repeating unsubstantiated arguments
    Monday’s Boston field hearing of the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation was good political theater.  Senator Kerry and Senator Begich from Alaska, chair of the Committee, tried their best to create a constructive and positive atmosphere for the important session.
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    GLOUCESTER TIMES: NOAA chief's 'hostile' stands cry out for accountability
    To U.S. Sen John Kerry, the wide gap in testimony between NOAA Chief Jane Lubchenco and those she's hurting on the front lines of the fishing industry is "very frustrating."
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    GLOUCESTER TIMES: AG Coakley's move gives NOAA secrecy priority it deserves
    To agency chief Jane Lubchenco and others inside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, how or whether they discipline employees — and how they arrived at those decisions — is obviously nobody's business.

    And they are dead wrong.
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    GLOUCESTER TIMES: Fisheries hearing will speak volumes of NOAA chief's status
    October 2, 2011 - Today's the day that NOAA chief administrator Jane Lubchenco could finally face the music, so to speak, during a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing pulled together by Sen. John Kerry at the Massachusetts State House.
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    RICHARD CANASTRA: Government's perspective remains off kilter
    While the acting chairman of the NEFMC and his staff participate in endless reviews of 9-month old reports describing how badly their operation is run, commercial fishermen, destroyed by the regulations they implemented, are unable to pay their bank loans and are forced to sell their boats and businesses.
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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.