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Gloucester is home to the oldest seafaring support business of its kind, and the oldest continuously operating marine railway in the country. The Gloucester Marine Railways, a shipyard at the tip of Rocky Neck that hauls large boats onto drydock for repairs, maintenance and storage, has been of service to thousands of schooners, commercial and pleasure boats for 152 years. Owned by five of the city's fishery founding families, it has been managed for the past 13 years by Viking Gustafson.
Those timeless tasks have been performed on boats from Captain Cook's that explored the Arctic in 1907, the Nantucket Lightship, and, right now, the Boston Tea Party Museum's replica of the Beaver, which has been in Gloucester drydock for restoration since October. 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."
