WASHINGTON, DC (March 11, 2009) – The U.S. Inspector General has found that a "lack of trust" by the New England groundfishing industry in its federal regulators is largely responsible for a "lack of confidence" in government science that should otherwise be respected.
Inspector General Todd Zinser gave the National Marine Fisheries Service, which regulates federal fishing waters from here to the Carolinas, good grades on the science it uses as a foundation of its regulatory decisions.
But Zinser also advised NMFS it is held in a "pervasive lack of trust and confidence" that "manifests itself as doubt in the science."
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