NOAA's Stand-Pat Cod Stance Draws Fire
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Gloucester Daily Times] By Sean Horgan - January 30, 2015
Fishing stakeholders have not surrendered in their campaign to get NOAA Fisheries to modify the emergency interim actions that have shuttered the Gulf of Maine to cod fishing and severely restricted fishing for other species.
The stakeholders, including the Gloucester-based Northeast Seafood Coalition and the Maine-based Sustainable Harvest Sector, are widely displeased at what they consider NOAA’s casual rejection Wednesday of an industry plan that would eliminate the 200-pound cod bycatch trip limit and open up some closed broad stock areas in return for the sectors surrendering up to 60 metric tons of allocated cod quota.
“I’m flabbergasted,” Maggie Raymond of the Associated Fisheries of Maine said Thursday in advance of the New...
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