PROVIDENCE, RI (September 04, 2008) — The ink was barely dry on a downbeat, 1,000-page study of groundfish stocks when critics started poking holes in it during the first day of a two-day meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council.
New Bedford Mayor Scott W. Lang took the first 10 minutes of a mid-afternoon public comment period to implore the council to delay the imposition of Amendment 16, which would further restrict fishing based on the science in the report.
More restrictions now, combined with sky-high fuel prices, would destroy the fishing industry in the nation's No. 1 port, Mayor Lang said.
"The easiest way to regulate is to drive the fishing industry out of business," he said.
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