When might such a forum might be held? How about right after Cohen and Juliand are sent packing like their mentor and former national police chief Dale Jones? Or perhaps after the agency reimburses fishermen and waterfront businesses excessively penalized by Cohen's and Juliand's heavy-handed tactics? The leaders of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have a poor track record when it comes to simply ignoring the concerns of local fishermen and even to their elected representatives, from the local to the federal level. But they apparently heard the hue and cry after Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk and others urged a boycott of a ludicrous NOAA law enforcement forum that had been set for Monday, since it was due to involve both a federal fishery enforcement agent and a NOAA prosecutor whose actions were among those at the center of a federal investigation. NOAA announced Wednesday that the forum had been postponed, and would be rescheduled "to a date and format to be worked out with (Kirk)." [read the editorial in full in the Gloucester Daily Times]
