With eyes focused Wednesday on our congressional lawmakers' push for higher fishermen's catch allocations, it's important to remember that an even more blatant case of NOAA wrongdoing cannot go unchallenged.
That, once again, is the ludicrous stand by Lois Schiffer, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's national chief counsel, not to revisit past cases of fishermen and fishing businesses who have clearly paid excessive fines and penalties, and to simply "go forward."
And it's good to hear that U.S. Sens. John Kerry and Scott Brown and Congressman John Tierney have that issue in their sights as they continue to challenge more and more arms of a rogue, wayward agency that continues to show nothing but contempt for the industry, for Congress and, really, the American people.
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