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Gloucester Mayor reviving dormant city fisheries panel |
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Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk, who has become a player in the intensifying national debate over fisheries policy, is reactivating the Gloucester Fisheries Commission — an agency created by the Legislature in 1956 to investigate and advocate for the "promotion, preservation and protection of the Gloucester fishing industry."
Kirk has appointed eight members who will serve with her, but the core of the commission is five active fishermen — four groundfishermen and a lobsterman known for their entrepreneurial adaptivity and political and industry activism. Read the complete story from The Gloucester Times.
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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."
