News Washington New Bedford Scalloper Larry Yacubian's business and personal life devastated by NOAA's 'bad actors'; Report says Federal agent dissuaded State agent from testifying as defense witness |
New Bedford Scalloper Larry Yacubian's business and personal life devastated by NOAA's 'bad actors'; Report says Federal agent dissuaded State agent from testifying as defense witness |
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Among the 13 cases of justice miscarried against the New England fishing industry — and linked in the report of a special investigative master that prompted a Cabinet level apology Tuesday — one involved was the ruination of a scalloping business of Lawrence Yucabian. According to the detailed — but redacted — findings of Master Charles Swartwood III, were multiple affronts to the American justice system that laid Yucabian low, costing him his boat, business, home and place in the New Bedford fishing community.
In his own 15-page statement released Tuesday, U.S. Commerce Secretary
Gary Locke wrote that these cases did not reflect “individual bad acts,”
warranting disciplining anyone, but were byproducts of lax supervision
and oversight. Yet, as delineated by Swartwood, a retired federal judge who heads the
Massachusetts Ethics Commission in a report made public Tuesday after
Locke and NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco issued their apology, NOAA
enforcement’s acts against Yucabian included: Read the complete story 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."
