GLOUCESTER, MA (March 10, 2009) – It is called the National Marine Fisheries Service. But its function and agenda in recent years have been so predatory on the industry that it might as well be called the National Destruction of Marine Fishing Service.
Indeed, if federal lawmakers do not rein in the NMFS, the agency may well "succeed" in that twisted version of its mission, its documented goal of further reducing Gloucester’s and New England’s fishing fleets.
But Gloucester fishermen, struggling for years under the weight of both draconian regulation and heavy-handed NMFS enforcement, got some more encouragement last week when Democratic leaders of the Massachusetts Legislature appealed to Congress for an independent investigation into NMFS.
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