November 4, 2021 — In recent years, the federal government in the form of the National Marine Fisheries Service has been expanding restrictions on fin fishermen throughout the U.S. In the Northeast every aspect of a fishing vessel is controlled by regulation, from the size of the mesh in a net, to where and when and what you can fish for, to who is on your vessel and when you can leave the dock.
This has caused the fishing industry to shrink and the fin fishermen in New Hampshire have dwindled down to a handful. During my lifetime, the fishermen in New Hampshire have had one commercial fishing organization. We all meet together and work out our differences. Compliance in all the New Hampshire fisheries is high and conflicts are few. After all, we are a community out on the ocean and need to work together.
Read the full opinion piece at the Portsmouth Herald