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Overview of Boston Senate Field Hearing by State House News Sevice |
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BOSTON — Federal regulators faced a barrage of criticism on Monday from elected officials who blamed catch limits for crippling an already waning fishing industry in Massachusetts and costing fishermen their livelihoods.
Citing a concentration of revenue among a small group of top-earning fishing vessels, U.S. Sen. John Kerry said he worried that attempts to replenish overfished populations were hurting small fishermen, and U.S. Sen. Scott Brown described the level of trust between fishermen and the federal government as “beyond repair.” Read the complete story from The Taunton Gazette.
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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."
