"Elliot Norse is not currently a candidate for the NMFS position," Justin Kenney, communications director for Jane Lubchenco, said in an e-mail to the Gloucester Times.
Squelching a hot and fast-moving rumor, an official source yesterday said Elliott Norse, a crusading environmentalist and fierce opponent of trawling or dragging — hauling a weighted net along the ocean bottom for groundfish — is not a candidate to fill the top spot at the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Justin Kenney, communications director for Jane Lubchenco, the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, responded to reports on a blog and industry Internet Web site that Norse — seen as something of a lightning rod figure — had become a candidate to head NMFS.
Read the story in the Gloucester Times