May 15, 2013 — Despite objections of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley and others, new quotas on the catch of flounder, haddock and other types of fish took effect on May 1.
The quotas, and the sharp decline in fishing stocks that brought them about, have caused some people to question the future of fishing in New England.
Vito Giacalone is not only a third generation fisherman, but he's also the policy director for the Northeast Seafood Coalition.
"The scientific recommendations, if we were to take them exactly as they come out each time they come out, they're very noisy. You get a very high recommendation. One assessment you get in two to three years and you get an entirely different assessment. The management response is linear to that all the time, that's the problem," he says.