Northeast Seafood Coalition board member Vito Giacalone has responded to the Gloucester Times front page article “Fishing sector fee of 10k draws fire”. The following is an excerpt from his response:
The Gloucester Times front page article “Fishing sector fee of 10k draws fire” by Richard Gaines (August 4th) contained incomplete or incorrect information that is sure to mislead. The record needs to be set straight immediately.
The article begins by reporting that the Northeast Seafood Coalition (NSC) has put a $10,000 price on membership to the 13 cooperative corporations or “sectors” they are organizing……” This statement is entirely misleading in that it incorrectly leads the reader to believe that the NSC is charging fishermen an admission fee, payable to the NSC for the benefit of the NSC. Later in the article Gaines incorrectly placed an overall cost of $750,000 in the same sentence with my quote that the NSC should be “made whole”. The way Richard placed this into one sentence implies that the NSC is seeking to recoup $ 750,000 by charging 10k to fishermen to join a sector. This is also entirely inaccurate.
As I intended to clearly explain to the GDT, being “made whole” means insuring that the organization (NSC) which has invested an enormous amount of time and money into the effort to provide the entire industry with a sector “OPTION” is not left with any debts, and that the membership’s hard-earned financial reserves that were expended should be replenished. In case there remains any further confusion, here are all the facts…
Read the entire Northeast Seafood Coalition response at Saving Seafood.
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