BOSTON (AP) — February 12, 2013 — The Commerce Department’s inspector general is beginning the next phase of its investigation into how the government makes fishing rules.
In a memo Monday, that office notified the top manager at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that it was beginning its review of ‘‘controls and processes’’ in a management system installed in 2010.
The system established strict catch quotas for each species of bottom-dwelling groundfish in New England, and gave fishermen individual shares of those quotas. Fishermen then pooled their shares together in groups called sectors.
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