WASHINGTON, DC (March 13, 2009) – This is the first in a regular series of columns to be presented by Dr. Jim Balsiger, acting assistant administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service.
I want to thank Gloucester Daily Times Editor Ray Lamont and fishing/waterfront reporter Richard Gaines for meeting with Regional Administrator Pat Kurkul and me last week at the Times as the winter storm subsided.
I am also grateful to the paper for raising the groundfish issue to the public, and I appreciate this chance to write a column that will appear every two weeks to share NOAA’s perspective and answer questions.
Read the column in full in the Gloucester Daily Times