Jones remains sinfully on the payroll, collecting his $150,000 salary plus benefits while Lubchenco considers an "appropriate" place to reassign him. Here's one: How about working the commissary in a federal prison? That may be the only choice if he and his thug agents are ever brought to justice for the actions they've carried out against fishermen, their families and fishing communities?
Enough is enough. There is no need, no place for any more talk.
Jane Lubchenco's tenure as head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is an ongoing, unmitigated disaster. And if any part of the Obama administration — right up to the president himself — is to have any credibility in addressing the shameful, government-driven campaign to stomp down the fishing industry, it simply has as no choice but to let her to go.
It is now blatantly obvious there is no working with her to resolve any of the issues she once vowed to fix, any of the openly corrupt actions she has allowed to continue — and essentially endorsed — under her so-called "leadership."
She has made promises that have not been kept. And she remains clearly bent on only one thing — doing the bidding of the Environmental Defense Fund she once served as board vice chairwoman and further cutting the already skeletal fishing fleets of Gloucester and other New England and American ports — despite clear evidence that most fish stocks are rebounding.
Read the complete story from the Gloucester Daily Times.