A long-promised U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing into regional fisheries policy, organized by Sen. John Kerry and featuring Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and a bipartisan panel of senators and representatives, will be held Monday morning at the State House in Boston.
The hearing is expected to focus on the impact on the fishing industry of the new catch share management regimen which began in May 2010, partially transmuting into a commodity market which has brought consolidation and accelerated the maldistribution of equity.
Lubchenco will be faced with questions from Kerry, U.S. Sens. Scott Brown and Mark Begich, an Alaska Democrat who chairs the Commerce Committee, along with Congressmen John Tierney, who represents Cape Ann, Barney Frank, who represents New Bedford, and William Keating and Stephen Lynch, who represent the South Shore and Cape Cod respectively.
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