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New Bedford Mayor says Lubchenco should be replaced

After what he described as evasion and equivocation by Jane Lubchenco at a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing, New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang is calling on President Obama to replace the NOAA administrator.

In a prepared statement released Wednesday night, Lang said that Monday's testimony by Lubchenco crushed the last hopes he had for her to be able to effectively lead on fishery concerns.

Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk, who has made a close alliance with Lang on fisheries issues, took a different tact today.

She videotaped an appeal, posted on YouTube, to the president to fix things, but instead of urging Lubchenco to go, Kirk invited her to come to Gloucester her — the nation's first fishing port city — for a followup public meeting with municipal and port interests.

"Rather than calling for Dr. Lubchenco's resignation," Kirk said in an email, "I'd prefer she answer back to the community as a follow up to the visit she made here in March 2010.

Read the complete story from The Gloucester Times.

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