Rep. Young rips into Jane Lubchenco
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NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco doesn't have a lot of fans in Congress right now.
Alaska Rep. Don Young certainly isn't one.
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Under fire, NOAA chief considers fishermen's plight
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Repeated appeals to the federal government for disaster relief for Massachusetts' commercial fishermen may finally be getting attention from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In a statement released Tuesday, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said she will review the latest fishery and economic data and expressed a willingness to examine the extent of the losses.
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Sen. Snowe Applauds New England’s Groundfishery Management Improvements
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) today applauded an announcement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that the agency will improve management of New England’s groundfishery and reduce the economic burden of the fishery’s observer program. Specifically, NOAA will continue to fund the at-sea monitoring program for the groundfishery through the end of the 2012 fishing year on April 30, 2013. The agency announced it will also increase stakeholder involvement in the reforms stemming from an April 2011 independent management review.
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Bishop Announces Award of Over $250K in Grants to Remove Derelict Fishing Gear from Long Island Sound
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Mattituck, NY, October 18, 2011– Restoration of the Long Island Sound
marine habitat took a major step forward today with the announcement by
Congressman Tim Bishop and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation of
two grant awards to Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County’s
(CCE) to identify and remove more than 118 metric tons (260,000 lbs.) of
marine debris, including abandoned lobster pots, from the Sound.
Through these awards, funded by the Fishing for Energy Fund and Long
Island Sound Futures Fund, CCE will employ up to 45 local lobstermen to
identify and remove derelict fishing gear, reclaiming more than 40,000
acres of the sea floor of the Long Island Sound.
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New Commerce chief faces fisheries unrest
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John Bryson, confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Secretary of Commerce,
assumes an office burdened with a request — just short of an ultimatum —
from U.S. Sen. John Kerry, who wants a declaration that the
administration's fisheries policy has had a disastrous effect on
Massachusetts' fleet.
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