News |
Proposed limits on shark fishing encounter opposition |
|
U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-NC, has written to Sam Rauch, acting assistant administrator of NOAA fisheries, hotly opposing a NOAA plan to impose a catch shares system on shark fishing along the entire East Coast and Gulf of Mexico.
“There appears to be no evidence in the record of a formal proposal from fishermen on the Atlantic Coast requesting a catch share program for sharks in this region,” Jones wrote. Read the complete story from Standard-Times.
|
|||
|
|
||
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."
