Kudos to Gov. Deval Patrick, Congressman Barney Frank, Mayor Scott Lang and others for essentially reading the New England Fisheries Management Council the riot act.
The council, and its previously dismissive chairman, John Pappalardo, has now reversed itself and agreed to review unfair federal scallop restrictions imposed in November.
Previously, Pappalardo had refused to review the restrictions, which area scientists say are based on bad science.
It’s always an uphill battle with the New England Fisheries Management Council. I’ve covered it off and on since I was a younger reporter and and it has a bureaucratic, often closed-minded approach, to the issue of managing the fisheries.