June 5, 2015 — GLOUCESTER, Mass. — U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton had a busy — and fruitful — week on the fishing front in the U.S. House of Representatives.
On Thursday, the freshman Democrat from the Massachusetts 6th Congressional District announced he and two other New England representatives secured an appropriations commitment to allow NOAA to continue paying for observer coverage on commercial fishing boats, including those in the Northeast multispecies groundfish fishery.
The commitment from Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, a key appropriations subcommittee chairman, included $43 million in the House appropriations bill for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to cover the expense of observer coverage in the coming federal fiscal year.
The appropriations request still must survive budget negotiations with the Senate to be enacted in the final federal budget.
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