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Massachusetts Attorney General set to testify at state house fisheries hearing |
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The state legislative Subcommittee on Catch Shares and Fisheries Management holds a public hearing this morning at the State House that features testimony from Attorney General Martha Coakley.
Also expected to testify are industry attorneys Stephen Ouellette and Paul Muniz of Gloucester and Pamela Lafrenierie of New Bedford, all of whom have at the center of the resistance to the policies of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration policies. Read the complete article 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."
