LONDON – The Economist, the influential international news weekly published from London has published a news brief on the troubles facing New England fishermen.
New Bedford has always looked to the sea. In "Moby-Dick", Herman Melville wrote that "nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford. Whence came they?…from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans." The "Whaling City" still relies on sea creatures. New Bedford is the nation's principal fishing port in terms of landed value. From the top floor of its whaling museum, Scott Lang, New Bedford's mayor, points out the ice-house which produces ice for fish storage, the tanks that hold boat fuel, the fish houses where fish are cleaned. He also notes the many boats, two and three deep along the docks. Seeing so many boats in dock would usually indicate a storm is coming, Mr Lang says. Now, it's an indicator of a regulatory tempest.
Read the story in The Economist.