NEWBURYPORT, MA (March 17, 2009) – It is called the National Marine Fisheries Service. But its function and agenda in recent years have been so predatory on the industry that it might as well be called the National Destruction of Marine Fisheries Service.
And if federal lawmakers do not rein in the NMFS, the agency will "succeed" in that twisted revision of its mission.
North Shore fishermen, who have been struggling for years under the weight of both draconian regulation and heavy-handed enforcement of the NMFS, got a bit of encouragement recently when Democratic leaders of the Massachusetts Legislature appealed to Congress for an independent investigation into NMFS.
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