The fishery job kill — raised, of course, by state and federal lawmakers last year, then shamefully ignored can be ignored no longer.
The New England Fishery Management Council — in nearby Danvers this week for its regular monthly meetings — is due to discuss potential limits and other remedies today on the heels of a frightening report on the catch share system they put in place two years ago.
And that may show the council finally recognizes that this bogus catch share management system for what it is — a job-killing economic tool that's costing Gloucester and other fishing communities scores of jobs and waterfront businesses for no reason other than a push from NOAA, the so-called "green" nonprofits and their corporate backers to consolidate control of the fishery.
What remains to be seen, of course, is whether the council will do anything about these mounting job losses — induced, incredibly, by our own federal government under NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco and, by extension, the Obama administration as a whole.
Read the complete editorial by Richard Gaines in The Gloucester Times