A New Bedford fisherman with a wife and three kids to feed, he's finding it hard to get on a dragger when well over half the city's fishing boats are tied up at the dock more than half the time. "Whatever it takes for my family, I'll do. I'll go wherever I have to go," said Carlos Amarim, a rugged man with a straightforward way that seems the definition of working-class honor.
What we really need to do is get the president to ask why in the world his staff is not paying attention to all of these senior elected officials of his own party who are telling himself something is wrong in his administration.
All that fishermen are asking for is that they be allowed to catch the maximum amount of fish allowed under the regulations.
They are not asking to eliminate the regulations and ignore the environmental issues.
"We're hoping that by doing this again this year so close to the president that they will see that fishing families are working families."
You would think that a Democratic president would see that.
You would think that, wouldn't you?
Read the complete editorial from The South Coast Today.