Boston Globe calls for complete change in how fishing communities deal with cod crisis
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Boston Globe] - October 13, 2014 - (Editorial)
With codfish at their lowest level in history, it is hard to give credence to fishermen and political leaders who believe New England’s iconic catch would be just fine if only nosy researchers and regulators would get out of the way.
In the Globe, the Gloucester Daily Times, and the Cape Cod Times, fishermen are again protesting that they will lose everything, with one calling further restrictions “premeditated murder” of inshore fleets.
Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk has retreated to the decades-old default political stance of calling the science “questionable,” declaring in a letter, “we cannot have any more direct hits on the Gloucester fishing community.”
It is clearly time for a new model that shelves the insular response to new quotas and instead draws on lessons from all over the nation.
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