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Mass Sen. Scott Brown talks business to Chamber lunch gathering |
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U.S. Sen. Scott Brown was talking small business and commerce Friday, fitting for a luncheon that was hosted by the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce and drew some 180 local business and community leaders to The Gloucester House on the city's harborfront. Touting initiatives from his own so-called FISH Act to revisions in the 1099 tax code, the estate tax and a medical equipment tax, Brown said he identified with small-business owners and their needs amid the lingering recession.
Brown, who visited Cape Pond Ice and the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction on a trip to Gloucester after filing his FISH Act reform measure last month, noted that some of the government wrongs foisted on Gloucester and America's fishermen have stemmed from and endless changing of limits and catch management rules, in some cases after fishermen have invested thousands of dollars. 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."
