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GLOUCESTER TIMES: NOAA's dysfunction on center stage

A few days after a NOAA email last week announced a new management position for ousted ex-fishery enforcement chief Dale Jones, none other than NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco thankfully rescinded the position last Friday.

So all's well, right? Wrong.

For one thing, Lubchenco hasn't fired Jones. Her rescinding of his shameful new appointment means he's merely "stuck" in his current role as fisheries analyst — still raking in an obscene $155,000 in taxpayers' money instead of facing the criminal investigation that's more than two years' overdue.

And if anything, this entire scenario shows precisely how dysfunctional Lubchenco's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has become.

Read the complete editorial from The Gloucester Times

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