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Op-Ed : Another blow to Massachusetts fishermen |
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No one needs to be told how the fishing industry, once an economic mainstay of the Massachusetts economy, has been declining in recent years. Overfishing, followed by increasingly onerous federal regulation, has reduced the state's catch, and its fishing fleet, to the lowest level in decades.
Now comes yet another blow to this tottering industry. On December 28, the federal government issued a "Request for Interest" for proposals to erect electricity-generating wind turbines — hundreds of them — in 3,000-square miles of federal waters south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Read the complete opinion in The Martha's Vineyard 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."
