Steve Welch, a commercial fisherman for over 30 years, sat with shaking hands as he addressed US Representative William Keating and a room full of South Shore fisherman on Friday afternoon.
"We have government monitors on us all the time…and it is not profitable for me to go fishing anymore,' he said as he looked down at the table. "I'm beyond being mad … the oldest industry in the U.S. was started right here, and this is where it's going to end.'
Noting the frustration with regulations that fishermen say have decimated the profitability of the industry, Keating came out to discuss the issues — the first step in the creation of a South Shore Fisheries Task Force that hopes to address these these problems.
[read the complete story in The Boston Globe]