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EDITORIAL: Unity and influence |
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The fishing industry has not always spoken with one voice.
Groundfishermen and scallopers have usually pursued their own agendas,
but the proposed 2010 scallop limits represented such a dire economic
threat to fishermen, processors and the region's overall economic
well-being that it produced a unified opposition that succeeded in
forcing the council to back off.
Following the decision to scrap the strict limits after numerous
questions about the scientific assumptions the council was using, some
members of the council were reduced to sputtering about the political
pressure and press criticism they had been subjected to.
Read the complete story at The South Coast Today [subscription site] |
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Lubchenco has one easy way to help local fishermen by Hoff Stauffer
At a meeting with local fishermen last week, NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco said: "We have a lot of work to do ... We can make it better."
She has at least one option for making it better right away. She can increase the 2010 annual catch limits by 33 percent, simply by redressing the balance on the National Oceanic and Administration's treatment of uncertainty.
