Government Shutdown Costing Fishing Industry Millions; Some Damage is Irreversible
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is impacting all U.S. fishing ports on three levels: no federal workers to finalize certain documents needed to go fishing, no federal science teams to conclude stock assessments and no workers to begin survey work, and an extraordinary strain on enforcement and search and rescue duties of the U.S. Coast Guard, an agency now run by service members who are not being paid.
Tomorrow the shutdown will be five weeks old. The handicaps of the shutdown are resulting in millions...
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