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NEW YORK—Captain Carl Madsen spent the Night of Irene aboard the Riptide, a 90-foot fishing boat based on City Island, in the Bronx.
He and a deckhand took the boat across Long Island Sound on Saturday evening to Hempstead Harbor, on Long Island's north shore. The wind howled "like a freight train" overnight, and the water was "a little choppy" around 4 a.m., but the boat's sheltered location kept it from becoming battered. Read the complete story by The AP at The Boston Globe.
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MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager
May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."
