A New England Fishery Management Council member already at the center of a dispute over scallop allocations is now under fire in her own community and state.
Several fishing boat owners are challenging the claims of Sally McGee, the Environmental Defense Fund senior staffer who also heads the New England Council's Scallop Committee, after she said in an interview on the EDF Web site that "dwindling fish populations" have nearly destroyed the "once vibrant" fishing community of Stonington, Conn.
Eight fishing boat-business owners who work out of Stonington, interviewed by Richard Gracek, a fisherman and sometimes columnist, objected to McGee's implications that some stocks are nearly gone in Stonington and across New England.
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