The Internet (February 18, 2009) – There is an article on the front page of the S.O.F.A. site headed “Finally a Breath of Air” the tells how a federal judge in New England kicked proposed regulation back to the NMFS with the comment that the Magnuson Stevens act was not intended to put fishermen out of business and wrote a scathing opinion detailing that.
Typically, the NMFS reaction was to entirely shut the door on the fishery, claiming that they now had to step back and re-evaluate the whole regualatory structure and that while they did that, the boats would have to stay tied up.
Read the commentary in full in The Way You See It