OPINION: About Time Lobster Rules Were Informed by Lobster Fishery
Turbulent" is a word often used in reporting about the relationship between the people who lobster for a living and the people who regulate that business.
Same goes, when it comes to dialogue, for "heated" and "tense."
The state of Maine last week announced something that might take the temperature down: As it develops new rules for fishing, it has undertaken to conduct the first survey of commercial lobstermen in almost 20 years. Good. And, managed correctly, restorative.
This regulatory landscape is generally uneven and hotly contested. A January television...
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