November 13, 2013 — They drove home an important message — namely, that the fishing industry essentially serves as the farming or harvesting of the sea, and that the threats faced by the industry, in Gloucester and elsewhere, is frighteningly similar to the crisis that first drove the family farm to the brink of extinction years ago as well.
We’ve noted a number of times that, by steering more of the catch toward larger corporations through its catch share management system, NOAA is driving the entire industry toward an agribusiness of the seas, freezing out the small independent boats in the process.
Read the full editorial at the Gloucester Daily Times