WASHINGTON, DC (March 24, 2009) – [EXCERPT: Lubchenco described the Interim Rule as her personal "No. 1 priority" adding, "We have made no decision yet."] Jane Lubchenco, the newly confirmed administrator of the nation’s fisheries, promised yesterday to put her personal stamp on the final draft of the fiercely disputed, one-year Interim Rule for New England’s commercial groundfish industry.
"We are going to be moving relatively rapidly," Lubchenco said in a telephone interview with the Times last evening after she held separate hour-long meetings with fishing interests and afterward environmental groups.
A marine biologist who took leadership of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Fisheries Service at the end of last week, Lubchenco described the Interim Rule as her personal "No. 1 priority" adding, "We have made no decision yet."
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