The long planned national fishing industry rally in Washington, D.C next Wednesday beginning at high noon, approaches under ominous regulatory clouds and fishermen and shoreside businesses in desperate straits.
A "sizeable fraction" faces engineered unemployment via the Obama administration's privatization program known as "catch shares," which comes to New England tethered to fishing cooperatives or sectors intended to cull down the fleet.
With fishing people heading toward the nation's capital from the north, east, southeast and south — and even a few from the West Coast and Alaska — organizers of the "United We Fish" campaign announced new congressional co-sponsors for the bill to write some flexibility into the Magnuson Act that now requires all overfished stocks to be restored to optimal size simultaneously.
Read the complete story at The Gloucester Daily Times.