March 30, 2012 – According to Jim Donofrio and Nils Stolpe, the organisers of the recent Keep Fishermen Fishing Rally in Washington, the event was a great success.
Indeed, it exceeded their expectations in terms of the number and the range of the federal and state legislators and other public officials who addressed the assembled fishermen, focusing on the NOAA/NMFS excessively rigid interpretation and implementation of the Magnuson-Stevens Act.
This rigidity, feels Nils, “is unnecessarily forcing so many fishermen and folks in fishing-related jobs off the water and out of work while our fisheries are more productive than they’ve been for years.”
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