The giving away of Public Commonwealth to special interests, Catch Shares and the push toward them by NOAA – regardless of standards of the nation’s fishing laws, and despite Constitutional rights – have become a hotter topic by the day. Recently, the chairman of the U.S. House finance committee, leading Democrat Cong. Barney Frank has put everything on the line and challenged the Obama Administration to get the fishing industry problems straightened out or it will have serious consequences regarding how Frank and others support the Administration.
U.S. Congressman Barney Frank has joined Massachusetts’s New Bedford mayor Scott Lang and others by pushing the Obama Administration to uphold the laws of the United States regarding Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Act standards.
Read the full blog at the Groundswell Fisheries Movement