Destination — Washington D.C.
Assignment — an act of Congress, redress of grievances.
Working title — "United We Fish."
The stakes are high. Most informed and reasoning stakeholders agree that the statutory and regulatory system is on its way to securing the sustainability of the nation's great fisheries, but at the cost of endangering thousands of fishermen's jobs and the economic vitality and cultural stability of the villages, towns and few cities in the Ocean Nation — the narrow sliver of American shoreline that rings the United States.
From Gloucester, the spiritual co-capital of Ocean Nation, Mayor Carolyn Kirk embarked by train yesterday afternoon for tomorrow's grass-roots rally of U.S. fishermen, her message honed to a sentence:
Read the complete story at The Gloucester Daily Times.