BOSTON — NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco told a Senate Commerce Committee field hearing today that, while there is a "long way to go" in rebuilding trust with the fishing community, "we are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel."
But, except perhaps for her assistant administrator Eric Schwaab — who sat next to Lubchenco during an often tense 2 1/2-hour State House hearing organized by Sen. John Kerry — there was little evidence that anyone else either on the panel of six federal lawmakers or among stakeholder-witnesses spied the same light.
Congressmen John Tierney, Barney Frank and Sen. Scott Brown spoke of Lubchenco and her administration as a lost cause, both before and after she and Schwaab departed the State House hearing room just before Brian Rothschild, the distinguished scientist at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, delivered his three-minute oral statement at the end of the second panel.
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