Massachusetts Senate Republican Leader Bruce Tarr has written to New England Fisheries Management Council Chair John Pappalardo to express the view that "Contrary … to the assertions made by Assistant Administrator Eric Schwaab at the Gloucester meeting that the management system "is not broken" and requires refinement only … it does suffer from significant dysfunction and requires major reform to become more effective and to rebuild the partnership between those who regulate and those who are regulated.
Senator Tarr's letter outlines a number of suggested corrective actions.